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MRS. AMELIA C. WAITE. 
President National Mary Washington Memorial Association 



THE 



BUILDING OF ft MONUMENT 



A HISTORY OF THE 

MARY WASHINGTON ASSOCIATIONS 

AND THEIR WORK. 



SUSAN RIVIHRE HETZEL, 

Secretary N. M. VV. M. A. 



Lancaster, Pa.: 

Press of Wickersham Company, 

1903. 



THE LIBRARY OF 
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Copyright, 190J 

BY 

SUSAN R. HETZEL. 



^ Cooing illcmorial 



TO 

AMELIA C. WAITE AND MARGARETTA J. HETZEL 
AiND ALL WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE, 

AND TO THE 

LIVING VICE-PRESIDENTS AND OTHER WORKERS 

WHOSE UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY 

HAVE AIDED IN 

ACCOMPLISHING THIS BUILDING, 

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 

BY THEIR FRIEND AND CO-WORKER 

S. R. H. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 

General Washington had been President 
four months when his mother died in Fred- 
ericksburg, on August 25th, 1789. 

Robert Lewis, the nephew and private 
secretary of the General, tells us in his jour- 
nal that the President did not receive the 
news of his mother's death until September 
I St. A letter from Colonel Burges Ball, 
containing the sad news, arrived while he 
was seated at dinner, enjoying the bright and 
witty conversation of Baron von Steuben and 
Governor St. Clair. Robert Lewis further 
states, that when he opened the letter, " My 
uncle immediately retired to his room and 
remained there some time alone." 

Alone with the past, with the fond mem- 
ories of the devoted mother. Did he recall 
his infancy at Wakefield, his childhood at 
Pine Grove, and the stern but loving rule 
of his widowed parent ? the inflexible regard 
for truth and right which she had so firmly 
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2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

implanted in his character? her toils and 
sacrifices to secure to her children their un- 
impaired patrimony ? her protest against his 
entering the Royal Navy ? — simply the fears 
and anxieties of a fond mother, but of what 
immeasurable advantage to the Colonies and 
the world. Who could forget her hatred 
of shams, of flattery, of anything false, even 
to avoidance of any allusion to his glory, lest 
his head should be turned by too much 
praise ? — though she loved him all the more 
tenderly ; and when old and broken in health, 
she consented to appear at the Peace Ball at 
Fredericksburg. 

Her death was not unexpected. His last 
act, before his departure for New York to 
assume the duties of President, was to visit 
his mother at Fredericksburg, A few days 
after receiving the sad intelligence he wrote 
the following touching letter to his sister, 
Mrs. Betty Lewis : 

" My dear Sister : 

" Colonel Ball's letter gave me the first account 
of my mother's death. Since that I have received 
Mrs. Carter's letter, written at your request; and 
previous to both I was prepared for the event by 
advices of her illness coming to your son Robert. 



DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 3 

" Awful and affecting as the death of a parent is, 
there is consolation in knowing that Heaven has 
spared ours to an age beyond which few attain, and 
favoured her with the full enjoyment of her mental 
faculties and as much bodily strength as usually 
falls to fourscore. Under these circumstances, and 
in the hope that she is translated to a happier place, 
it is the duty of her relatives to yield submission to 
the decree of the Creator. 

" When I was last in Fredericksburg I took a 
final leave of my mother, never expecting to see 
her more. 

" Your affectionate brother, 

" George Washington." 

On August 28, 1789, Mary Ball Wash- 
ington was laid to rest. Business was sus- 
pended in the city of Fredericksburg ; crape 
hung from the houses. The church was 
thronged with her friends and neighbors, 
who followed her loving daughter and grand- 
children to the place chosen by herself for 
her last resting-place, near the granite boulder 
now called "Oratory Rock," where she loved 
to retire and pray for her beloved son during 
the troublous days of the Revolution. The 
coffin was carried from the church on men's 
shoulders ; the knoll was covered by the 



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4 BUILDING OF A MONUMEI^T. 

concourse of mourners and spectators, tor 
they had lost not onh" the mother of the 
President, but an old and beloved friend. 

The mournino- was creneral all over the 
country ; press and pulpit made note of the 
event. Members of Congress wore crape for 
thirt)' days as for a distinguished official. 
Congress passed a resolution to erect a monu- 
ment to the mother of Washington, and to 
that resolution General Washino-ton re- 
sponded in a note of thanks, adding : 'T at- 
tribute all my success in life to the moral, 
intellectual and physical education which I 
received from my mother." 

How well the Government fulfilled this 
resolution, any one can see who reads these 
pages and recalls the hundred years that in- 
tervened between the passage of this resolu- 
tion and the buildincr of the monument. In 
truth the work of forming a new Republic was 
no lioht task. Washinorton's administrations 
were hampered b}^ the Indian Wars, the 
Whiskey Insurrection and Shay's rebellion. 
Adams's term was taken up with the French 
troubles, and the threatened war with the 
Directory. Jefferson's was filled with the wars 



DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 5 

with the pirates of Tripoli , Lewis and Clarke's 
marvelous march to the Pacific, the Louisiana 
purchase and Aaron Burr's conspiracy ; dur- 
ing Madison's administration Congress could 
of course think of nothing but the second war 
with England. It took a long time for the 
country to recover from that war, and so it 
happened that nothing but a little headstone 
marked the grave of Mary Washington when 
Lafayette revisited this country in 1825. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 

In 1826 a strong appeal for a monument 
to Mary Washington was written by George 
Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of 
Martha Washington, the adopted child of his 
grandmother and her renowned spouse. Mr. 
Custis wrote the life of Mary Washington as 
he had heard it from his grandmother and his 
adopted grandfather, and when one reads this 
account, one realizes how great was Wash- 
ington's love and veneration for his mother. 
This life is to be found in Mr. Custis' Remin- 
iscences. Lossing the historian, Captain 
George Washington Ball in his " Monograph," 
Marion Harland, and other biographers of 
Mary Washington have quoted freely from 
this eulogy of the noble matron. This appeal 
awoke great interest all over the country. 

In 1830, the people of Fredericksburg en- 
deavored to raise by subscription, sufficient 
money to build a monument over the grave 
of Mary Washington. They succeeded in 
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THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 7 

accumulating about two thousand dollars, 
when Silas E. Burrows, a rich New Yorker, 
became so interested in this endeavor to honor 
the mother of Washington, that on April 19th, 
1 83 1, he wrote a letter to the Mayor of Fred- 
ericksburg, Thomas Goodwin, of which the 
following is an extract : 

" I have seen with the greatest interest, the efforts 
made by the citizens of Fredericksburg to erect a 
monument over the remains, and to rescue from ob- 
livion, the sacred spot where reposes the great 
American mother : Mary the Mother of Washington. 
I have also seen an article published in the Com- 
mercial Advertiser of this city, proposing to remove 
the remains of Mrs. Washington from the spot se- 
lected by herself, where they now rest, and to place 
them within the walls of a Presbyterian Church to 
be erected for that purpose. 

I feel a great interest that the ashes of this good 
American mother should remain where they are, 
and I wish to be allowed the honor of individually 
erecting the monument, which I assure you sir, shall 
be in the style and execution to please the family of 
Washington and the citizens of the United States. 
Let her sleep upon the bosom of her own mother 
earth where she selected her pillow, and let the 
willow of Mount Vernon, from the tomb of her son, 
be transplanted to wave through time over the 
mother's grave. 



8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Be pleased sir, to make this communication known 
to the Washington family and all interested." * * * 

Mr. Burrows' generous offer was accepted, 
and he proceeded with the work he had vol- 
untarily accepted. On May 7th, 1833, the 
corner stone of the monument was laid by 
President Andrew Jackson. 

A full report of the ceremony of laying the 
corner stone was published in Fredericksburg 
at the time. A reprint of this account is now 
before me and I will give my readers the 
benefit of a part : 

" The President, Andrew Jackson, not only at- 
tended, but three days were consumed by him in 
doing honor to Washington's mother — one day in 
coming here, one day in the exercises, and one day 
in returning. Captain Kinsey's company of Rifle- 
men from the District of Columbia came here, as 
did also the Marine Band from the Navy Yard, 
Captain Brockett's Light Infantry from Alexandria, 
and a Troop of Light Horse from Fauquier under 
Colonel Fauntleroy. 

The President was attended by Hon. Lewis Cass, 
Secretary of War, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Attorney 
General, and Major Donelson, Private Secretary. 

The ceremonies were followed, according to the 
Fredericksburg Arena, with "a barbecue in the old 



THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 9 

Virginia style, prepared under an ample awning in 
the beautiful grove of Hazel Hill, which was par- 
taken of by about 5000 persons. Among the invited 
guests present, were the President and heads of de- 
partments, the military companies from a distance, 
and all strangers of distinction. At 4 o'clock danc- 
ing commenced and was kept up with considerable 
spirit until near sunset. The arrangements were 
excellent and the entertainment did great credit to 
the contractors, Messrs. Blackburn and Curtis. 

At about 9 o'clock the President was escorted 
from his lodgings to the town hall, where Jie was 
introduced to a number of citizens and strangers, 
who called to pay their respects to the chief magis- 
trate of the nation. The day was fine, and the occa- 
sion attracted a large concourse of persons from the 
adjoining counties. The procession set out from 
the town hall at half past ten o'clock, and moved 
according to the arrangements of the committee, in 
the order and through the several streets previously 
designated, to the site of the monument." 

THE ORDER OF PROCESSION AND ITS MOVEMENTS, 

1. Architect and his Assistants. 

2. Silas H. Burrows. 

3. Monumental Committee. 

4. President of the United States and Cabinet. 

5. Clergy and relatives of Mrs. Washington. 

6. Mayor and Corporate Authorities. 



lO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

7. Naval and Military Oflficers, 

8. Masonic Societies. 

9. Band of Music. 

10. Military, 

11. Teachers and their Pupils. 

12. Citizens and Strangers. 

There was one chief Marshal, Colonel 
Bankhead, and twelve Assistants on the oc- 
casion. 

The Masonic Societies, Band and Military 
formed at the Court House and marched to 
the Town Hall, where they joined the rest of 
the procession. 

Fredericksburg had then three military 
companies : The Fredericksburg Guards, the 
Rifle Company and the Fredericksburg Blues, 
Junior. The Junior Blues was a company of 
" youths " (small boys in full uniform with 
wooden guns). 

One of the Fredericksburg journals thus 
describes the effect: "As the procession 
moved up Main street, the extended line, the 
various uniforms of the military, the gittering 
arms, the music, the dense mass that thronged 
the sidewalks, the crowded windows over- 
looking the scene, altogether presented a view 
grand and imposing." 



THE FIRST CORNER STONE. II 

The ceremonies opened with a prayer by 
Rev. E. C. McGuire, followed by an address 
from Mr. Bassett, Chairman of the Monument 
Committee. Both Mr. McGuire and Mr. Bas- 
sett were sons-in-law of Robert Lewis, the son 
of Betty Washington and Fielding Lewis, 
mentioned on pages i and 2 of this volume. 
Mr. Bassett was also a grand-nephew of Mrs. 
Martha Washington. 

Mr. Bassett said: 

" In the name of the Monumental Committee, I 
present you. General, the plate which is intended to 
distinguish that stone just adjusted by the Master 
of the Lodge as the corner stone of this pile. * * * 
In looking upon this monument, (raised chiefly by 
the munificence of a patriotic individual) the citizens 
of the States will remember that they are brothers. 
They will remember that here lie the ashes of the 
mother of the "Father of his Country." They will 
acknowledge to this just tribute to the merits of her 
who early deprived of the support of her consort, 
encouraged and fostered by precept and example, 
the dawning virtues of her illustrious son, and mus- 
tered into maturing those faculties which were the 
ornament and glory of her waning years. They 
will acknowledge the hallowed character of this ro- 
mantic spot, ever to be remembered as the place 
chosen for her private deuotions — the spot to which 



12 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 

she often led her offspring, and pointing to the order 
and beauty of the works of nature, here so eminently 
displayed, she guided their youthful minds to con- 
template the power and benevolence of the great 
author of their being. Here she taught the attri- 
butes of God — that to him as their Creator all praise 
belonged — that to glorify him was the object of their 
creation, and to this end every energy should be 
devoted. Here, she asked as a dying request that 
her mortal remains might rest. Hallowed be this 
wish, sacred this spot. * * * Let us carry with us 
hence, engraved on our hearts, the memory of her 
who is here interred. Her fortitude, her piety, her 
every grace of life, her sweet peace in death through 
her sure hope of blessed immoriality," 

General Jackson replied in an eloquent ad- 
dress. Marion Harland, in her beautiful 
"Story of Mary Washington," says: "The 
President dwelt at length upon the character- 
istics of her they had met to honor, a eulogy 
which hundreds of his auditors could have 
verified, or challenged from their own mem- 
ories. As the speaker gained his information 
from Madame Washington's contemporaries, 
his verdict is of distinct value." 

After an acknowledgment of the courte- 
sies of the Monumental Committee and a fine 
eulogy of Washington, the President said : 



THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 3 

" The mother and son are beyond the reach of 
human applause : but the bright examples of parental 
and filial excellence which their conduct furnishes, 
cannot but produce the most salutary effects on our 
countrymen. Let their examples be before us, from 
the first lesson which is taught the child, 'till the 
mother's duties yield to the course of preparation 
and action which nature prescribes for him. * * * 

Tradition says that the character of Washington 
was aided and strengthened, if not formed, by the 
care and precepts of his mother. She was remark- 
able for the vigor of her intellect and the firmness of 
her resolution. Left in early life the sole parent of 
a young and numerous family, she devoted herself 
with exemplary fidelity to the task of guiding and 
educating them. With limited resources she was 
able by care and economy to provide for them, and 
to ensure them a respectable entrance upon the 
duties of life. A firm believer in the sacred truths 
of religion, she taught its principles to her children, 
and inculcated an early obedience to its injunctions. 
It is said by those who knev/ her intimately, that 
she acquired a wonderful ascendency over those 
around her. This true characteristic of genius at- 
tended her through life, and even into its decline, 
after her son had led his country to independence, 
and had been called to preside over her counsels, he 
approached her with the same reverence she had 
taught him to exhibit in early youth. This course 



14 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

of maternal discipline no doubt restrained the nat- 
ural ardour of his temperament, and conferred upon 
him that power of self command, which was one of 
the most remarkable traits of his character. 

On tracing the few recollections which can be 
gathered of her principles and conduct, it is impos- 
sible to avoid the conviction that they are closely- 
interwoven with the destiny of her son. The great 
points of his character are before the world. He 
who runs may read them in his whole career as a 
citizen, a soldier, and a magistrate. * * * Look 
back at the life and conduct of his mother, and at 
her domestic government, as they have been this 
day delineated by the Chairman of the Monumental 
Committee, and as they were known to her contem- 
poraries and described by them, and they will be 
found admirably adapted to form and develop the 
elements of such a character. The power of great- 
ness was there, but had it not been guided by ma- 
ternal solicitude and judgment, its possessor, instead 
of presenting to the world examples of virtue, patri- 
otism and wisdom, which will be precious in all 
succeeding ages, might have added to the number 
of those master spirits whose fame rests upon the 
faculties they have abused and the injuries they have 
committed. 

How important to the females of this country are 
these reminiscences of the early life of Washington, 
and the maternal care of her upon whom its future 



THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 5 

course depended. Affection less regulated by dis- 
cretion might have changed the character of the son, 
and with it the destinies of the nation. We have 
reason to be proud of the virtue and intelligence of 
our females. As mothers and sisters, as wives and 
daughters, their duties are performed with exemp- 
lary fidelity. They no doubt realize the great im- 
portance of the maternal character and the powerful 
influence it must exert upon the American youth. 
Happy it is for them and our country that they have 
before them this illustrious example of maternal 
devotion, and the bright reward of filial success." 

sK ***** * 

Could the chivalrous old hero have knowr 
what would devolve upon the "females" of a 
later generation, I do not know whether he. 
would be most gratified or mortified. Yet 
who shall say that that corner stone was laid 
in vain, when such testimonials to the worth 
of Mary Washington, uttered in the presence 
of those who knew and loved her, still exist? 
Testimonials not only from her family, but 
from the warrior, statesman and President, 
who had spared no pains in learning her 
character from those who had remembered 
her in life. 

Though the monument was never com- 



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/ pleted, though the stones crumbled and fell, 

i the truth is stronger than monuments and 

\ these words should never die; they should 

labide in the memory of all true patriots and 

forever confront and confound the baseless 

slanders of latter-day scoffers. 

Nor were the " females " of the day silent, 

for the ceremonies closed with the reading of 

the following poem : 

THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. 

BY LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, 
Of Hart'ord, Connecticut. 

" Long hast thou slept unnoted. Nature stole 
In her soft minstrelsy around thy bed, 
Spreading her vernal tissue violet-gemmed 
And pearled with dew. 

She bade bright summer bring 

Gifts of frankincense, w^ith sweet song of birds, 
And Autumn cast his reaper's coronet 

Down at thy feet ; the stormy Winter spake 
Sternly of man's neglect ; but now we come 

To do thee homage, mother of our chief; 
Fit homage, such as honoreth him who pays. 

Methinks we see thee as in olden time, 

Simple in garb, majestic and serene. 
Unmoved by pomp or circumstance, in truth 

Inflexible, and with a Spartan zeal 
Repressing vice and making folly grave. 



THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 7 

Thou didst not deem it woman's part to waste 

Life in inglorious sloth, to sport awhile 
Amid the flowers, or. on the summer's wave. 

Then fleet like the ephemeron away, 
Building no temple in her children's heart 

Save to the vanity and pride of life 
Which she had worshipped. 

For the might that clothed 

The » Pater Patria," for the glorious deeds 
That made Mount Vernon's tomb a Mecca shrine 

For all on earth ; what thanks to thee are due 
Who 'mid his elements of being wrought. 

We know not ; Heaven can tell. 

Rise sculptured pile, 

And show a race unborn who sleeps below ; 
And say to mothers that a holy charge 

Is theirs ; with what a kingly power their love 
Might rule the fountains of the unborn mind. 

Warn them to work at early dawn and sow 
Good seeds before the world hath sown her tares, 

Nor in their toil decline, that angel hands 
May put their sickle in and reap for God. 

And gather to his garner, ye, who stand 
With thrilling breast to view her trophied praise. 

Who nobly reared Virginia's godlike chief. 

Ye, whose last thought upon your nightly couch, 

Whose first at waking is your cradled son, 
What though no high ambition prompts to rea,r 

A second Washington, or leave your name 
Wrought out in marble, with a nation's tears 

Of deathless gratitude, yet you may raise 
A monument above the stars — a soul 

Led by your teachings and your prayers to God." 

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1 8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Sixty-one years later this Poem was sent to 
the Washington Post, by Mrs. Claudia B. 
Money of Mississippi, Vice-President of the 
National Mary Washington Association, who 
presented it with these appropriate words: 

" It is a touching coincidence — the utter destruc- 
tion of the first tomb, and the complete forgetfulness 
of this poet, who was at this time very popular ; but 
her writings are to be found now only in old Hbraries, 
embalmed in cream and gold. So do all pass from 
the minds of men. So had the memory of Mary 
Washington become dim in the recollections of the 
people until some sudden patriotic thought struck 
the noble women who rescued her from oblivion. 
We seem to be looking abroad in the land for the 
names of our illustrious dead, and all great deeds, 
to commemorate in bronze and marble. It is well 
to raise these landmarks to perpetuate the history 
of those who have made America first among the 
nations of the earth — that those who come after may 
emulate and follow them," 



CHAPTER III. 



THE FIRST MONUMENT. 



During the first four years that succeeded 
the laying of the corner stone, the monument 
was built, the base with the little Doric col- 
umns in place — the obelisk was brought to 
the spot, ready to be elevated, when the work 
was suddenly abandoned. Various reasons 
have been given for its non-completion. 

There is a Frederickburg tradition to the 
effect that Mr. Burrows commenced the 
monument to please a Virginia girl, a de- 
scendant of Mary Washington, with whom he 
was in love, and that he ceased the work 
when she jilted him. This story is too ob- 
viously mythical to deserve comment, further 
than to say that there is no subject which 
romantic youth is not prone to gild with the 
glamour of the "old, old, story." 

The reason given by Mrs. Ella Bassett 

Washington is that Mr. Burrows was unable 

to finish the work owing to "a sudden reverse 

of fortune." Marion Harland gives the same 

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20 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

reason and so does the Appeal of the Fred- 
erickburg Association issued by Mrs. James 
Power Smith in 1889; but a contributor to 
the Washington Post, on Friday, May 1 1 th, 
1894, after a diHgent inquiry among the old- 
est inhabitants of the ancient city of Fred- 
ericksburg, gives what appears to me the 
most probable reason for its non-completion. 
He states that it was owing to the death of 
the contractor, Rufus Hill, adding: 

" It has been for many years a matter of 
tradition that Mr. Burrows started the monu- 
ment but did not complete it because he lost 
his fortune. This is not the case. Mr. Bur- 
rows furnished all the money required for the 
completion of the work before his departure 
for China, where he died in the belief that his 
wishes and instructions were carried out. 
To Mrs. Catherine Nossett of this city, who 
was then a girl in her teens, history is now in- 
debted for a true statement of the facts. The 
contractor, Mr. Hill, was a stone mason, and 
working in the hot sun, was stricken with 
brain fever and died. His death ended the 
contract, none of his relatives thinking it in- 
cumbent upon them to go on with the work," 



THE FIRST MONUMENT. 21 

Probably they were not competent; it is 
said that the funds were lost by the failure of 
the bank in which they were deposited. So 
nothing was done, and year after year the un- 
completed monument stood, the shaft lying 
prone on the ground beside it. In full range 
from the well known Marye's Heights, the 
monument was riddled by bullets during the 
Civil War ; the base was battered by cannon- 
ading. One of the stones was broken and 
removed from its place, subjecting the found- 
ation to the destruction of water and frost. 
The ravages of war were succeeded by the 
depredations of the relic-hunter; the Vandals 
following as the Goth of old. 

Thomas Scott in the New York Times thus 
describes it: 

" The monument was commenced long before the 
great war but never finished. For four years it was 
between two armies and battle surged around it. 
The marbles are pock-marked with bullets, fired in 
that sad time. Strewn about are the blocks of 
marble and the main shaft which was never put in 
place. It was within sight of this monument that 
occurred the terrible slaughter of our troops on that 
awful December day of 1862. But ten miles away, 
in the following May, the rout of Chancellorsville 



2 2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 

took place; and in May 1864, within fifteen miles, 
was the bloody Wilderness in whose tangles so 
many went down in battle, or were burned in the 
forest fires then kindled. Within ten miles was the 
two weeks slaughter of Spottsylvania Court House. 
* * * So it may be said that within sound of 
that spot died over fifty thousand brave men." 

In 1874 while the whole country was occu- 
pied by the approaching Centennial of the 
Declaration of Independence, a resolution 
was offered in the House of Representatives 
by Hon. Charles Pelham, "to consider the 
practicability of finishing the Washington Mon- 
ument by the approaching Centennial," and 
" to enquire and report as to the practicability 
of completing the unfinished monument to 
the memory of Mary the Mother of Washing- 
ton, at Fredericksburg." 

Lieutenant W. L. Marshall of the Engineer 
Corps, U. S. Army, was directed by the 
Secretary of War to examine the Monument 
and report an its condition. 

After a thorough examination, Lieutenant 
Marshall pronounced the monument "an irre- 
parable ruin " and recommended " that the 
base be rebuilt entirely of cut stone, that 



THE FIRST MONUMENT. 23 

the present facing be used for filling or else 
be erected in another spot as a memento." 
Mr. Pelham brought up a bill for the neces- 
sary sum to restore the monument, but it 
failed to pass. 

In 1878, Captin George Washington Ball, 
a descendant of Mary Washington, as well as 
of her cousin Buries Ball of the Revolution- 
ary Army, originated, "The Mary Washing- 
ton Association of America," which was in- 
corporated by the Legislature of Virginia in 
1878. The Constitution aimed to preserve 
and protect the birthplace of Washington, the 
home and grave of his mother, and all places 
sacred from their connection with his life and 
history, not falling within the province of 
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association or the 
Monumental Association in Washington City. 

Captain Ball is an eminent genealogist and 
antiquarian; he entered into this movement 
with great energy and interest. In 1885 he 
wrote an interesting Monograph of the Ball 
family, full of many valuable memories of 
Mary Washington and telling of the incor- 
poration of the Mary Washington Association 
seven years previously. While Captain Ball's 



24 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

interest and energy continued unabated, that 
of his correspondents and coadjutors seemed 
to flag, probably because they believed the 
Government would make the needed appro- 
priation. 

In 1886, Senator Daniel of Virginia, with 
all the force of his matchless eloquence, suc- 
ceeded in getting a bill appropriating sufficient 
funds to complete the monument, through the 
Senate of the 49th Congress. It failed to 
reach the House of Representatives. Again, 
the bill passed the Senate of the 50th Con- 
gress and again .it failed to reach the House. 

It was during that year, 1889, while the 50th 
Congress was still in session, on the 2nd ot 
March, when every one was occupied with the 
coming inauguration of President Harrison 
at Washington, as well as the Centennial of 
the inauguration of Washington at New York, 
that the following advertisement appeared in 
the daily press : 

The Grave of Mary the Mother of General 
George Washington to be Sold 
at Public Auction. 
To the ladies attending the inauguration of Presi- 
dent Elect Harrison. On Tuesday, the 5th of 



TlUmiAS DOWLING. AUCTIONEER. 



graveFmary, 

Tlie Mother of General George Washington, 

TO BE SOLD AT 

PUBLIC AUCT ION 

To lilt Latiif-N aiiending ihe ioauguration of Presidenl-Elect Harrison: 

On TUESDAY, 

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"THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT." 

From a Photograph of an Original Advertisement in the Scrap- 
Book of Mr. F. B. McGuire, of Washington, D. C. 



THE FIRST MONUMENT. 25 

March 1889, at 4 o'clock P. M., we will offer for sale 
at public outcry, at the Capital of the United States 
of America, twelve acres, of land, embracing the 
grave, the material of the unfinished monument 
of Mary, the Mother of General George Washington. 

.& 

Real Estate Agents. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 

Mrs. Fielding Lewis, nee Betty Washing- 
ton — left herbeautiful home in Fredericksburg 
soon after her mother's death, and spent her 
remaining days with her only daughter, Mrs. 
Carter, at her home in Lancaster County. 
After her death in 1 797, her children sold the 
estate to the Gordon family, who established 
their family burying ground close by the 
grave of Mary Washington. 

Many years after, the Gordons sold the 
house, to which they gave the name of "Ken- 
more ", to William Key Howard, and in 1888 
Mr. Herndon, the son-in-law of William K. 
Gordon, sold the ground surrounding the 
monument to Geo. W. Shepherd, an aged 
and esteemed citizen of Fredericksburg, with 
the express stipulation that the family burying 
ground and the Mary Washington monument 
were not included in the grant. 

A year later, on February 27, 1889, a firm 
of Real Estate Agents who proposed to pub- 
(26) 



THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 2/ 

lish a catalogue of lands for sale in Fredericks- 
burg and vicinity, asked Mr. Shepherd for an 
option on his lots. Mr, Shepherd gave the 
papers describing his lots and designating the 
Mary Washington monument as a landmark. 
On the next day, the 28th of February, the 
agents announced their intention of selling 
the grave of Mary Washington. In an inter- 
view published by the Fredericksburg Free 
Lance, they said : 

" Yes sir, we have the property in hand for sale, 
and will offer it at public outcry in the city of 
Washington on the 5th of March. There being no 
disposition on the part of either Congress or people 
to finish the monument, or to care for the grave of 
Mrs. Washington, and feeling the general depression 
of all kinds of business and to enliven up things we 
have determined to sell graves, if by so doing we 
can attract the attention of the country to this local- 
ity and bring money here from other sections." 

Though warned by a citizen of Fredericks- 
burg that the grave and monument could not 
be sold, the"terrible advertisement" appeared, 
in the Washington Post of March 2nd, and 
there were also issued, what Judge Fauntleroy 
justly calls, " 2000 atrocious handbills," as 
follows : 



28 building of a monument. 

General George Washington 

THE Tomb and Unfinished Monument of 

Mary, His Sainted Mother. 

On Tuesday, the 5th instant at 4 o'clock P. M. 
at the Capital of the United States of America, 
under authority vested in us by the real owners of 
the property, we will offer for sale, at public outcry, 
about twelve acres of land situated within the cor- 
poration of Fredericksburg, embracing the grave of 
Mary, the mother of General George Washington 
and also the materials of her unfinished monument. 
At the same time, we will offer to the highest 
bidder, the house in which she lived and died, and 
within eight squares of her tomb. 

& 

Real Estate Agents, Fredericksburg, Va. 

The record shows the outburst of indio-na- 
tion and reprobation v^ith which the citizens of 
Fredericksburg, in public meeting denounced 
this outrage upon public sensibility. 

As soon as Mr. Shepherd learned of this 
"shocking advertisement," he sent protests 
to the agents, stating that he never claimed 
to own the monument, and their advertising 
it for sale was wholly unauthorized. 

Whereupon the firm entered suit against 
Mr. Shepherd for breach of contract and 



THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 29 

damages, thereby making their unheard of 
course a matter of record. The Fredericks- 
burg Court decided against them, March 28, 

'""^hey carried it to the Court of Appeals of 
the state of Virginia and the former decision -^ 
was affirmed, November i8th, 1862; It is 
from the opinion of Judge Fauntleroy, of the 
Court of Appeals of Virginia, that I cite the 
facts mentioned in this chapter. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE woman's movement. 

On April 30th, 1889, the city of New York 
and the whole United States were occupied 
with the celebration of the Centennial of Gen- 
eral Washington's Inaugural. Every journal 
and magazine was filled with reminiscences of 
Washington, his family, his career and his 
every act. The incongruity of the aforemen- 
tioned advertisement caused outbursts of pro- 
test all over the land. One article in the 
Washington Post so aroused the indignant 
sympathy of Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, in her 
country home in Fairfax county, Virginia, that 
she was inspired to write the following letter 
to the Post on May 6th, 1889. 

" Mr. Editor : The Post of this morning quotes 
the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph as saying: 
* Every patriotic man, woman and child in the United 
States ought to sympathize with and encourage the 
movement to rescue from neglect and obHvion the 
grave of the mother of Washington.' 

And so doubtless they do ' sympathize,' but how 
(30) 




MRS. MARGARETTA HETZEL. 

Secretary. 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 3 1 

* encourage the movement to rescue from neglect 
and oblivion ? ' How bring about the desired re- 
sult ? 

The writer of this would suggest that the Post 
announce that every woman, as far as able, shall 
give one dollar to the proposed monnment, and that 
The Washington Post act as Treasurer for the 
fund and acknowledge in its columns daily, any con- 
tributions thereto received, with the names of the 
donors. 

How better can the mothers and daughters of 
this country, in this Centennial year, honor the 
memory of our Washington, who said: 'AH that I 
am I owe to my mother,' than by rescuing that 
mother's grave from oblivion and raising the mon- 
ument to her hallowed memory? One dollar is 
herewith enclosed as a beginning for the woman's 
fund. M. H. 

Clifton, Fairfax county, Va." 

To which the following response was 
promptly sent : 

" Dear Madam : Your suggestion in regard to 
raising money by popular subscription for a Mary 
Washington Monument Fund is a good one, and I 
thank you for sending it to me. Before commenc- 
ing any active work, the Post will send a represent- 
ative to Fredericksburg and ascertain just what is 



32 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

necessary to be done and the amount of money re- 
quired. ******* 

Your letter and the mouey enclosed (^i) will be 
held until such report is made. 

Respectfully, 

Frank Hatton." 

Upon reading this letter, Mrs. Hetzel 
thought that she must lose no time in seeing 
the Editor, to thank him for his ready response 
and consult with him in some way to bring it 
before the people. She went at once to Wash- 
ington, where he received her with great cor- 
diality, saying however, that he was about to 
leave for Chicag-o and would not return before 
the 31st, when he would be glad to see Mrs. 
Hetzel and talk over the matter. 

On June 2d, Mrs. Hetzel was in Washing- 
ton, spending a few days with her friend and 
cousin, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the widow of 
the Chief Justice. She called at the office of 
the Post and asked for Mr. Hatton. She was 
told that Mr. Hatton had not returned from 
the West, though he had been expected the 
day before. There seemed to be great anx- 
iety among the gentlemen at the office, and 
Mrs. Hetzel surmised that Mr. Hatton was 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 33 

detained by the flood at Johnstown. She was 
herself unable to return to Virginia, as the 
floods had made the railroads impassable. 
All travel was suspended. 

Storm-bound as she was, Mrs. Hetzel told 
her hostess of her suggestion to the Wash- 
ington Post to solicit small contributions from 
the women of the United States for a monu- 
ment to the mother of Washington. Mrs. 
Waite warmly favored the idea as a good 
method of bringing it before the public, but 
she added; "It cannot be built that way; a 
few thousand dollars might be raised no douT5t, 
but never a sum sufficient for that purpose. 
That can be done only by an organized move- 
ment; an association with agents in all the 
States." This idea was discussed with other 
ladies, among whom v/ere Mrs. Orange Ferris 
and Miss Louise Swan ; the plan was enlarged 
upon and adopted, and while the Johnstown 
flood still raged the National Mary Washing- 
ton Association was organized. Mrs. Waite 
was elected President, and Mrs. Hetzel, Sec- 
retary. Both ladies with characteristic mod- 
esty objected to taking these offices on the 
ground of their advancing years and failing 
3 



34 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

health, but the other ladies present insisted 
that no others could so well fulfill the duties, 
and they consented to act as President and 
Secretary pro tern. 

When Mr. Hatton returned fi-om Johnstown 
where he had been detained by the flood, and 
whence he wrote one of the most graphic and 
thrilling descriptions of that terrible disaster 
ever published, he was informed by Mrs. 
Hetzel of the organization of the Mary Wash- 
ington Association. He was much pleased, 
but he thought it best to solicit no funds at 
that time, as the Johnstown disaster was en- 
grossing public attention and sympathy; 
absorbing the funds of the patriotic and 
humane to the exclusion of everything else. 

Before leaving Washington, Mrs. Hetzel 
told an old friend, a leading member of the 
District bar, of the Mary Washington Asso- 
ciation, He took a great interest in the sub- 
ject and offered to draw up the Act of Incor- 
poration and By-Laws; "If you will give me 
time, for I am very busy at present," and the 
Secretary returned to her Virginia home and 
went to work to enlist Vice Presidents for the 
forty-five States, as Mr. Blair said: "To write 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 35 

the hundreds and thousands of letters for the 
object so dear to her." In spite of many dis- 
couragements, refusals, reproaches and unan- 
swered letters, she secured several Vice 
Presidents ready for work before the autumn. 

Meantime attempts were made in other 
quarters. The Old South Meeting House in 
Boston, while preparing to celebrate the Cen- 
tennial of General Washington's visit to that 
historic place of worship, wished to inaugurate 
a movement to complete the monument to 
the Mother of Washington at that celebration. 
A committee was appointed to inquire into 
the actual condition of the monument and 
Mayor Rowe of Fredericksburg sent them all 
the facts. The meeting was held on October 
26th and money collected, but when they 
found how far Congress had already gone in 
the matter they decided to postpone any 
further action. The amount collected was 
afterwards sent to the National Mary Wash- 
ington Memorial Association. 

Mr. C. Burrows Greene, a broker of New 
York City and a grandson of Silas Burrows, 
the generous donor of the old monument, was 
very anxious to have it restored. With the 



36 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

co-operation of another eminent New Yorker 
he was ready to make a movement for that 
object, but when they learned that Congress 
was attempting the work they withdrew, 
thinking it would be a national disgrace for 
the government not to complete the unfinished 
work. 

Among the many discouraging responses 
received by Mrs. Hetzel was a letter from the 
daughter of a Senator, declining the position 
of Vice-President on the ground that the 
money was going to be appropriated by Con- 
gress for the purpose, adding that though 
the bill had failed in 1889 it would certainly 
pass in 1890. The Secretary said when she 
read this letter : " If Congress should pass 
the bill for the monument, we still can erect 
a memorial to Mary Washington from the 
Women of the United States," consequently 
the title given to the Society was the National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association. 

The ladies of Fredericksburg, alike deter- 
mined to wait no longer on the dilatory action 
of Congress, held a meeting at a private 
residence on October 13th and founded the 
Fredericksburg Mary Washington Monument 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 37 

Association. On October 15th, an eloquent 
appeal was written by Mrs. Frances B, Gool- 
rick and published in the Washington Post of 
October 31st. Her plan proposed the same 
method of organization outlined by Mrs. 
Waite in June and already put in operation 
by Mrs. Hetzel during the summer. 

An Appeal in Behalf of the Mary 
Washington Monument. 

" Amidst great pomp and ceremony the corner- 
stone of the monument to the memory of Mary 
Washington, the mother of " the father of this Re- 
public," was laid in 1833. The erection of the 
monument over the grave of this most illustrious of 
American women was voluntarily undertaken by a 
philanthropic and patriotic citizen, Silas Burrows of 
New York. Mr. Burrows died before its comple- 
tion. It is now in an unfinished and dilapidated 
condition. 

" Congress has been again and again appealed to 
and importuned. Favourable legislation has been 
promised, but this incomplete monument crumbles 
and decays. Shall the memory of the mother of 
the great Washington longer be neglected? In 
every State of this Union monuments mark with 
emphasis the veneration with which George Wash- 
ington is held by a graetful republic, and at the 



38 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Capitol of the Nation there is one that towers above 
all the rest, but nowhere is there recognition made 
of the mother. Her very grave at this place is 
marked only by an unsightly pile of marble. Shall 
this neglect continue? 

" Mrs. Washington was an uncommon woman. 
It is recorded of her that ' she was of strong will, 
splendid judgment, untiring energy and without 
pretension,' and from these elements she molded 
her great son, taught him to become great, equipped 
him with attributes essential to greatness. She 
lived during the Revolutionary War in Fredericks- 
burg, died and was buried here at the spot she had 
herself selected for that purpose. Shall the grave 
of Mary Washington be allowed to remain longer 
in a condition which is the reminder of forgetful- 
ness, rather than the gratitude of our people? Re- 
member that the grave of Washington himself is 
held as a very Mecca, to which all liberty-loving 
people can make their pilgrimage, the work of the 
faithful and devoted women of this land? And it is 
proposed that an organization shall at once be 
formed, having for its object the erection of a mon- 
ument over the grave of George Washington's 
mother at this place. 

I " Will the women of this Republic respond to 
this appeal ? Are they not willing to undertake 
this patriotic work ? 

" To the end that steps may be immediately taken, 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 39 

it is intended to obtain a charter of incorporation of 
the Mary Washington Memorial Association, to 
have a president, one vice-president in each State, 
and other usual and necessary officers, all women. 
It is also suggested that the ladies of America on 
February 22, 1890, shall in every State make some 
organized effort to raise the necessary fundsf] The 
writer of this requests the paper to give circulation 
to this appeal, and will be glad to hear from any 
ladies who desire to take an active interest in this 
patriotic purpose. 

Mrs. John T. Goolrick, 
Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 15, 1889." 

This appeal was published by the Wash- 
ington Post on October 31st. The same 
issue had a very eloquent editorial on the 
subject. Mr. Hatton then opened the col- 
umns of the Post to subscriptions and con- 
tributions; a Mary Washington column in 
each number was devoted to the subject 
with editorial and contributed matter and 
accounts of money contributed, beginning 
with ^200 from the Washington Post, followed 
by the dollar sent by Mrs. Hetzel in May; 
$10 from Mrs. Clarkson of Iowa, a donation 
from Mrs. S. V. White of Brooklyn and con- 
tributions from many sources ; collections 



40 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

were made by friends in die Government 
offices, and in die private schools, notably by 
Miss Ellis of the McDonald Ellis School, who 
so inspired her pupils that they sent a beautiful 
contribution. The children individually re- 
sponded, even the newsboys adding their 
mites. For four months the Mary Washing- 
ton column headed with her portait appeared 
in the post, and upwards of a thousand 
dollars were collected in this manner through 
Mr. Hatton's energy and generosity. 

On November 8th, the Fredericksburg 
Mary Washington Monument Association re- 
ceived its charter. Mrs. James Power Smith 
was elected President and Mrs. Goolrick first 
Vice President. On November 25th, a beau- 
tiful appeal was issued by that Association 
from the pen of Rev. James Power Smith. 

The National Association did not receive 
its charter until February 2 2d, 1890, partly 
because they wished to have the work well 
started, enough Vice Presidents secured from 
the States to ensure success, and also because 
they felt that the 2 2d of February was the 
best date for the charter. 

A meeting of the National Association was 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 4 1 

held in December at the residence of Mrs. 
Admiral Lee, the Second Vice President. 
The meeting was presided over by the Presi- 
dent, Mrs. Waite. The members present 
Were, the two Vice Presidents, Mrs. Emory 
and Mrs. Lee, Mrs, Hetzel, the Secretary, 
Mrs. Col. Royall of the Executive Committee 
and three of the Vice Presidents of the States : 
Mrs. Stewart of Nevada, Mrs. Vance of North 
Carolina and Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, 
of Arkansas. 

The Secretary announced the acceptance 
of several other Vice Presidents, among them 
Mrs. B. S. Story of Louisiana, Mrs. Governor 
Dillingham of Vermont, Mrs. Hearst, of Cal- 
ifornia, Mrs. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, and 
Mrs. Grover Cleveland of New York City. 
The next meeting was held in January, at the 
residence of Mrs. Waite, and Mrs. Hetzel was 
instructed to go to Fredericksburg to examine 
the old monument, ascertain who held the title 
and obtain an option with a view to purchase. 

On January 15th, 1890, Mrs. Hetzel went 
to Fredericksburg with W. D. Davidge, Jr. 
She thus describes the monument; 

" We were met on arriving, by Mrs. Goolrick and 



42 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

with her drove immediately to the monument; found 
it the ruined structure now so familiar to us — by the 
wood-cuts freely published — standing ten feet square 
at its base, sixteen in height, on a commanding em- 
inence in a field of stunted briars; a melancholy 
spectacle, wholly without protection, the decayed, 
half fallen 'worm fence' near affording none. The 
design was an elaborate one, but defaced by time, 
riddled by bullets, chipped by vandals, weather 
beaten, broken and incomplete. What is left of the 
monument appeals overwhelmingly to every senti- 
ment of patriotism." 

Thence they drove to the Court House to 
see the w^ill of the noble mother; then called 
upon the Judge of the highest Court of the 
district, to v^^hom Mrs. Hetzel presented her 
credentials and instructions. He gave assur- 
ance that a perfect legal title could be given 
to the land, although that the situation v^as 
such — a public avenue having been opened 
by the city out to, and including the monu- 
ment — that no one could then give an option 
on it. The legal adviser of the Fredericks- 
burg Association being called upon, gave the 
same assurance and information. He prom- 
ised to prepare an abstract of title and forward 
it to Washington immediately, and also to see 



THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 43 

the Mayor of the city — who was out of town 
— on his return, and take steps to have the 
desire of the National Association to purchase 
the property laid before the city government. 
Mrs. Hetzel, grateful for the kind reception 
and facilities afforded her, returned to Wash- 
ington to present her report. A meeting was 
called for January 25th to receive the report; 
the President of the Fredericksburg Associa- 
tion and the other officers were invited to 
attend. 

The meeting was held at the residence of 
Mrs. Lee, 1625 Pennsylvania Avenue. Mrs. 
Lee opened the meeting and the Secretary 
read the report of her mission to Fredericks- 
burg ; this report was being discussed when 
Mrs. James Power Smith, the President of the 
Fredericksburg Association, having just ar- 
rived in Washington, entered and was intro- 
duced by Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Hetzel. 

After being warmly welcomed, Mrs. Smith 
produced a deed from the Mayor of Freder- 
icksburg of the monnment lot and the land 
upon which it stood, to the Fredericksburg 
Mary Washington Association, also the deed 
of the adjoining lot from G. W. Shepherd, to 



44 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

the same Society, both executed the day 
previous. 

Objections were made by the Vice Presi- 
dents of States, and others present, to the 
National Association undertaking to erect a 
monument upon land which did not belong to 
them and which they could not control. Mrs. 
Stewart — Mrs. Clifton R. Brecken ridge and 
Mrs. Vance, all saying that they could make 
no collections in their States for any but a 
National object. A proposition was made 
that the land should be conveyed to the 
National Association on conditions. Mrs. 
Smith had no authority to accept without con- 
sultation, and the meeting adjourned. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE INCORPORATION. 



On February 22nd, 1890, the National Mary 
Washington Memorial Association received 
its charter. An article in the Washington 
Post thus describes the meeting : 

" Washington's Birthday was celebrated by an 
important meeting of that band of patriotic women 
who, about six months ago, organized themselves 
into an association for the purpose of erecting a 
monument to Washington's mother, and maintain- 
ing and preserving the same in good order. The 
meeting was presided over by the President of the 
Association, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the widow of 
the late Chief Justice of the United States, and Mrs. 
Margaret Hetzel of Virginia acted as Secretary. 

" The meeting was for the purpose of formally 
adopting the charter prepared by Walter D. Davidge 
of this city, making the association a perpetual one, 
and availing itself of the privileges which the gen- 
eral incorporation laws of the District of Columbia 
give. 

" The certificate of incorporation was approved, 
executed and acknowledged by the Executive Com- 
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46 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

mittee of the old Association and given the name of 
the corporation as : ' The National Mary Washing- 
ton Memorial Association.' It states that the cor- 
poration is organized for the term of looo years 
from February 22nd, 1890, and that the particular 
objects of the society are the erection of a suitable 
monument to Mary, the Mother of Washington, in- 
cluding the acquisition of such ground as may be 
proper and the improvement thereof, and the main- 
tainenance and preservation in good order of said 
monument with the improvements; and that the 
number of managers for the first year is ten. 

" The names of the Executive Committee who 
executed the charter are: Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, 
Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel and Miss Maude Lee 
Davidge. 

" The incorporators also adopted a device for a 
seal, containing in the center the head of Mary 
Washington and around the circle the name of the 
society and the date of organization. They also 
adopted a membership badge of blue satin with the 
head of Mary Washington in silver and the initial 
letters of the society, N. M. W. M. A. 

".The officers of the old organization were elected 
to the corresponding positions in the new one, 
namely: Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President, Mrs. 
Margaret Hetzel, Secretary, and Mr. E. Francis 
Riggs, Treasurer. 



THE INCORPORATION. 47 

" By-laws were adopted, and by one of them the 
title to the real estate of the corporation is to be held 
in trust for its use by a board of trustees, consisting o 
the President of the United States for the time be- 
ing, the Chief Justice of the United States for the 
time being and the Governor of the State of 
Virginia, for the time being. 

" A Board of Managers for the first year was 
then elected, consisting of the five ladies of the 
Executive Commitee, the|;President of the Uuited 
States, [ex-officio], the Chief Justice of the United 
States [ex-officio], the Governor of Virginia [ex- 
officio], and Messrs. E. Francis Riggs and Blair Lee. 

" It is designed to appoint a Vice-President for 
each and every State, to raise and take charge of 
collections and the enrollment of members; twenty- 
five of whom have been already heard from and 
will accept the duty. Among them are Mrs, 
Grover Cleveland, Mrs, Senator Blair, Mrs. Senator 
McPherson, Mrs. Senator Stewart, Mrs. Senator 
Hearst, Mrs. Senator Faulkner and Mrs. Thomas 
F. Bayard." 

Mrs, Cleveland, greatly to the regret of 
the Board, resigned her office of Vice-Presi- 
dent for New York City in the spring, and 
Mrs, Bayard also wrote that she was unable 
to serve and recommended Mrs. Senator 
Gray as Vice-President for Delaware, 



48 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

After devoting the morning of February 
22, 1890, to the Act of Incorporation, the 
Board attended that evening a beautifnl re- 
ception, for the benefit of the Mary Washing- 
ton Monument, given by the Washington 
Press Association, in Miss Ransom's Studio, 
which she kindly lent for the occasion. It 
was a brilliant affair and was of great service 
in calling attention to the subject 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE INCORPORATORS. 

A SLIGHT sketch of the women who founded 
this movement would not be out of place here. 
All but one were aged women, but with the 
energy and enthusiasm of youth they aroused 
themselves to honor the memory of one of 
their sisterhood. 

Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the President, was 
a Miss Warner of Connecticut, a descendant 
of many historic families of the old Connecti- 
cut River stock ; both she and her distin- 
tinguished husband being great-grandchildren 
of Colonel Samuel Selden of the Revolution. 

Her early years were spent in Essex and 
Lynn, Conn. She married the future Chief 
Justice whrn he was a rising young lawyer, 
and went with him to Ohio, where he soon 
achieved distinction in his profession. She 
came to Washington when her husband was 
made Chief Justice and she resided there until 
her death in 1896. 

In Ohio as well as in Washington, she de- 
4 (49) 



50 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

voted much of her time to patriotic and char- 
itable work. She was active in raising money 
for the Mount Vernon Association in i860; 
later, when in Washington, she was one of 
the managers of the Epiphany Church Home 
and acting President of that noble Society, 
known as the Blue Anchor, the Woman's 
Auxiliary of the Life Saving Service. Her 
experience in the Mount Vernon Association 
gave her the idea of organization, and her 
work in the Blue Anchor Society brought her 
in correspondence and association with gifted 
and philanthropic women all over the country, 
from the Atlantic seaboard to the Gulf and 
the distant Pacific, 

When the idea of the Woman's Movement 
to restore the tomb of Mary Washington was 
first suggested to her, she showed such knowl- 
edge of the best methods that she was at once 
elected President pro tem., and six months 
after, when the charter was issued. President. 

How well she fulfiled the duties of her of- 
fice will be told in these pages. 

Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, long noted as one 
of the most brilliant and intellectual of the 
leaders of Washington Society, was a daugh- 



THE INCORPORATORS. 5 1 

ter of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas. 
Her father, Richard Bache, was the son of 
Sally Franklin Bache and the grandson ot 
Benjamin Franklin ; her mother, Sophia Dal- 
las, was the daughter of Alexander Dallas, 
Cabinet Minister under Jefferson, and sister 
of George M. Dallas, Vice-President, States- 
man, Diplomatist. Mrs. Emory inherited the 
strong mental and moral force of the Franklins 
and the Dallases. The talent of the Baches 
was proverbial in Washington. Her eldest 
brother. Professor A. Dallas Bache, was for 
many years Superintendent nf the Coast Snr- 
vey ; her eldest sister was the wife of Robert 
J, Walker, lawyer, statesman, and Secretary 
of the Treasury; her husband. General Emory, 
was an officer of distinction, as were many 
others, brothers and brothers-in-law. The 
sons were all distinguished and the daughters 
were the wives of distinguished men. 

Mrs. Emory was an active member of St. 
John's Church and one of the Board of Man- 
agers of St. John's Orphanage. Her clear 
intellect, ready wit and experience made her 
advice and counsel of the greatest value to 
the Incorporators and Directors, 



52 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, the wife of 
Admiral S. Phillips Lee, was the daughter of 
Francis P. Blair and the sister of Montgomery 
Blair and Francis P. Blair, Jr. She has been 
surrounded all her life by great minds. She 
remembers General Jackson as the intimate 
friend of her father, whose beautiful home, 
"Silver Spring" near Washington was a 
favorite retreat and resting place for the 
statesmen and literati, Mrs. Lee served with 
Mrs. Dolly Madison on the Board of the 
Washington City Orphan Asylum, of which 
institution she has been President for many 
years. 

She took hold of the Mary Washington 
cause with great enthusiasm, always ready 
with^assistance and advice, always eminently 
practical and clear headed. She is now 
President of the Society. 

Miss Maude Lee Davidge is the daughter 
of one of the most eloquent and noted mem- 
bers of the Washington Bar, Mr. Walter D. 
Davidge. Her mother was the beautiful Miss 
Anna Washington, a descendant of Colonel 
Bailey Washington, the father of the re- 
nowned Colonel William Washington, the 



THE INCORPORATORS. 53 

hero of the Cowpens. She Is also a de- 
scendant of Richard Bland Lee, the brother 
of Light Horse Harry and a cousin of Richard 
Henry Lee, the Signer, from whom Admiral 
Lee is descended. 

Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel, Secretary of the 
Association, was a cousin of Mrs. Waite, the 
President. She was born on the plantation 
of Teviotdale, on the island of St. Vincent, 
West Indies, in 1815. Her father, Captain 
Morrison Jack, was a West India planter of 
Scottish family; he married Roxanna Selden 
of Lyme, Connecticut. Before her daughter 
Margaretta was a year old, Mrs. Jack returned 
with her two little girls to her old home on 
the Connecticut River, on account of the 
troubled state of the islands. Captain Jack 
died soon after and Margaretta's early days 
were spent at the home of her grandfather, 
Calvin Selden, on the banks of the Connecti- 
cut. When still quite a child she was sent to 
school at New Haven. She was present at 
a reception to Lafayette and always remem- 
bered how the hero took her by the hand. 

At the age of twelve Margaretta went to 
Rochester, N. Y., with her uncle and adopted 



54 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

father, Judge Samuel Lee Selden. There 
she grew to womanhood and married Lieu- 
tenant A. Riviere Hetzel of the United States 
Army. The early part of her married lite 
was spent in Lewes, Delaware, where Lieu- 
tenant Hetzel was engaged in constructing 
the Delaware Breakwater. In 1836, Cap- 
tain Hetzel was ordered to Tennessee to 
assist General Scott in enforcing- President 
Jackson's treaty with the Cherokees. Mrs. 
Hetzel, with her infant son, joined him in 
1837, ^^^ spent several months in the Indian 
Country. In 1838, Captain Hetzel was ap- 
pointed Assistant Quartermaster General to 
General Jesup, the hero of 181 2. For many 
years she was stationed in Washington, D. C, 
and there her daughters were born. Mrs. 
Hetzel's reminiscences of her early days in 
Washington were very interesting. She 
would tell of General Jackson's parties, of 
Mr. Van Buren's levees and Mr. Tyler's re- 
ceptions. She was on the steamer Princeton 
when the fearful accident occured which 
hurried so many of the Nation's chosen into 
eternity. 

During the Mexican War General Scott 



THE INCORPORATORS. 55 

appointed Captain Hetzel his Quartermaster 
General, He went with the army to Mexico. 
The Louisville Journal thus tells of his service: 
" He ororanized the means at Vera Cruz which 
enabled General Scott to achieve a series of 
splendid victories. It was in Mexico that he 
contracted the disease which deprived him of 
life and the army of the most valuable ser- 
vice." He died on July 20th, 1847, at Louis- 
ville, on his way home. 

After her husband's death Mrs. Hetzel 
went with her children to Judge Selden's 
home in Rochester, but after a few years they 
returned to Washington. In 1852 Mrs. 
Hetzel was the means of securing a per- 
manent pension to the widows of Army 
officers. Her kind friend Senator George 
W. Jones of Iowa sent her a list of the Army 
widows; Mrs. Hetzel wrote a letter to every 
one, which caused each widow to interest her 
Representative in Congress and the bill was 
passed, aided by the active work of General 
Jones, Hon John P. Hale and other dis- 
tinguished Senators and Congressmen. 

It was thirty years after that, that Mrs. 
Hetzel saw the advertisement that impelled 



56 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

her to propose that the women of the United 
States should restore the tomb of Mary 
Washington and to send the dollar to Mr. 
Hatton to start the fund. 




MRS. M. V. TERHUNE.I 

^MARION HaRLAND) 



CHAPTER VIII. 

MARION HARLAND AND THE HOME-MAKER. 

The February number of the Home- Maker 
for 1890 contains an eloquent appeal from 
Marion Harland, then editor. For more 
than a year she had been striving to effect 
some plan of restoration of the Monument. 
While visiting Fredericksburg in the autumn 
of 1887 she had been distressed and indig- 
nant at the condition of the old monument, 
which she thus describes: 

" To-day the tourist to the battle fields of Freder- 
icksburg strayed upon a neglected enclosure, without 
the gray walls of which is the unfinished memorial 
sketched for this paper. Cattle graze around the 
base : it is discolored by time and weather; the 
relic-hunter's hammer has been busy with the 
chiseled edges ; the stately shaft that should bear 
aloft the bust of the sleeper's august son and the 
national emblem, lies prone and half buried in the 
earth. * * * * 

" The sun shines upon no sadder ruin in the 
length and breadth of our land ; winter snows can- 
(57) 



58 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

not cloak this disgrace to our nation, the ghastly 
satire upon the ingratitude of repubhcs." 

In October 1889, in anticipation of this ap- 
peal, the Home- Maker published a biograph- 
ical sketch of Mary, the mother of Washing- 
ton^ by the Reverned James Smith Power of 
Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

Books were opened at the office of the 
Home-Maker for the registration of contribu- 
tions to the cause. For six months after date, 
seventy-five cents out of every annual sub- 
scription of Two Dollars to the Home-Maker, 
accompanied by the words " For Mary Wash- 
ington Monument" were pledged to go 
directly to the object. 

Mrs. Terhune quoted Dr. Smith in saying: 
" We will take up the scattered, moss covered 
stones that lie around the broken column, 
and build some modest, yet enduring memo- 
rial on the banks of her beloved Rappa- 
hannock, to tell of a nation's gratitude and 
to perpetuate the virtue of Mary, the mother 
of Washington." 

In March 1890, Mr. Jack and Mr. Wood- 
ard, two Western members of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, wrote the Fredericks- 



THE HOME-MAKER. 59 

burg Association proposing to furnish a stone 
for the base of the monument, — a soHd base, 
ten feet square, with a shaft fifteen hands 
high, the completed monument to cost ^looo. 

Mrs, James Power Smith, then President 
of the Fredericksburg Association, favored 
this proposition because of the soHd character 
of the design, saying that "the old monu- 
ment was composed of too many small stones 
which had led largely to its present condition." 

The litde monument was opposed by 
Mayor Rowe and was finally declined. The 
Fredericksburo- Free Lance sustained the 
Mayor in an editorial saying that the Nation 
should be represented in the fund applied. 
an urged their Representatives to induce 
Congress to make a sufficient appropriation. 

In April of the same year, a bazaar was 
given by the ladies of the Fredericksburg 
Monument Association. A series of enter- 
tainments, a little play, a minuet, netted $450, 
which enabled the Association to purchase 
additional land extending the proposed park 
to five acres. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

The first meetino- of the Board of Directors 
of the National Mar)- Washington Memorial 
Association, after the Incorporation, was held 
in the Green Room of the White House, 
May 13th, 1 89 1, the anniversary of the settle- 
ment of Jamestown — though the members 
thought little of Jamestown, or of anything 
else but Mary Washington and her proposed 
monument. 

The Board was cordially welcomed by^vlrs. 
Harrison, who expressed great interest in the 
object. Mrs. Waite. jNIrs. Emor)', Mrs. 
Hetzel and Miss Davidae. with Messrs. 
Reginald Fendall and Blair Lee, represented 
the Board of Directors. The Vice-Presi- 
dents of States present were the wives ol 
Senators Blair, Vance. Cockrell, Dolph and 
Squire ; Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge of 
Arkansas, Mrs. Reyburn of Penns3lvania, 
Mrs. Hernando D. Money of .Mississippi, 
Mrs. Mar)- Washington Keyser of Mar}-- 
(60) 



THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 6 1 

land and Miss Pendleton of Philadelphia. 
A few minutes after four, President Harri- 
son called the meeting to order saying: "I 
desire to express the interest I feel in the 
work and my willingness to co-operate in 
every way possible. I have no doubt you 
will all prove efficient in carrying out the 
work." 

Owing to press of business the President 
was compelled to leave the meeting before 
the close and Chief Justice Fuller was called 
to the chair. 

Mr. Reginald Fendall presented to the 
meeting the certificate of Incorporation and 
the by-laws of the association. The election 
of three officers, a Vice-President, a Secretary, 
and a Treasurer was then held and resulted 
in the election of Mrs. Waite as Vice-Presi- 
dent, of Mrs. Hetzel as Secretary and of Mr. 
E. Francis Riggs as Treasurer. 

Mrs. Waite read a letter which she had 
received from Mrs. James Power Smith, 
the President of the Fredericksburg Mary 
Washington association, congratulating the 
National association on the good work it 
was doing. The presiding officer, Chief 



62 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Justice Fuller, appointed Mr. Reginald Fen- 
dall, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite and Mrs. Henry 
S. Blair a committee to confer with the 
Fredericksburg Association and to report at 
the next meeting of the Board. 

On June 17th Mrs. James Power Smith, 
Mrs. V. M. Fleming, Mrs. Thompson and 
Hon. William A. Litde Jr., of Fredericksburg 
came to Washington to confer with the Board. 

The meetinor was held at the house of 
Mrs. Emory. Neither Mrs. Waite nor Mrs. 
Hetzel was present ; Mrs. Waite having 
left Washington for a European tour and 
Mrs. Hetzel being dangerously ill at her 
home in Virginia. 

Mrs. Emory, always a charming hostess, 
welcomed the Fredericksburg delegation, 
assisted by Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Norton, Miss 
Davidge and Mr. Blair Lee. 

The Fredericksburg Committee submitted a 
proposition to convey the monument and land 
to the National Association on condition that 
a suitable monument should be built thereon, 
to begin not later than February 22nd, 1894. 

The meeting adjourned, the conditions to 
be laid before the National Association. 



CHAPTER X. 

FIRST APPEAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 

The Secretary of the National Mary Wash- 
ington Memorial Association was confined to 
her bed with a severe and dangerous illness 
during the months of June and July 1890. 
As soon as she was able to sit up and the 
trained nurse and physician had taken leave, 
she prepared to issue an appeal to the 
women of the United States. She was 
assisted in writing it by Mrs. Claudia B. 
Money, Vice-President for Mississippi, wife 
of Hon. Hernando D. Money, then Repre- 
sentative, now United States Senator. 

It was not until August that Mrs. Hetzel 
was well enough to take the appeal to Wash- 
ington to receive the approval of the Board 
and place it in the hands of the printer. One 
member objected to issuing it at that time 
because a deed had not been granted to the 
National Association ; Mrs. Hetzel considered 
the proposition of the Fredericksburg Associ- 
ation a sufficient guarantee; the deed could 
(63) 



64 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

not be conveyed at the time, as Mrs. Waite 
was absent in Europe, and Mrs. Hetzel 
thought that no time should be lost in bring- 
ing the matter before the country. The 
appeal was approved by a majority of the 
Board. Mrs. Lee lett her country home. 
Silver Spring; and met the other members in 
Washington. Fifty thousand copies were 
printed and several thousand were issued in 
September. 

To THE Women of the United States this 
Appeal is Addressed. 

June, 1890, 

The grave of Mary, the Mother of Washing- 
ton, lies neglected and desolate ; a monument begun 
there, but never completed, stands blackened and 
dilapidated. We would rescue from totnl oblivion 
the name of a woman whose memory should be hal- 
lowed in every American home, and pay a national 
tribute to her noble motherhaod by erecting a mon- 
ument in her honor. 

This is a "woman's movement," says the first cir- 
cular issued, " national in its character, for raising 
the needed sum by such small contributions that no 
woman in the land need be deprived of the privilege 
of aiding a cause that must appeal to the heart of 
every mother and daughter in America." 



THE FIRST APPEAL. 65 

This will be the first monument ever erected by 
women to a woman. Mary Washington was of a 
heroic nature, patriotic soul, tender spirit, and un- 
common mental gifts. She was the finest type of 
the brave and devoted women who ruled the house- 
holds of the Colonies in those days when our free- 
dom trembled in the balance. Do we not stand 
reproached before the world ? Should we not make 
ample atonement for the neglect under which has 
lain for long years the memory of the mother of the 
greatest hero and patriot " that adorns the annals of 
history ?" It is a sad spot, that desolated grave where 
has rested for a hundred years, amid tangled masses 
of humble weeds and grass, the noble woman so 
beloved and revered by her noble son, who proudly 
declared, " I attribute my success in life to the 
moral, intellectual, and physical education which I 
received from my mother." Should not this touch 
the hearts of our women and make them cling 
tenderly to her memory as a proud heritage ? A 
precious memorial will be the monument they shall 
place above her sacred dust, and consecrated the 
ground where she reposes. 

The women of America should be "heart-moved 
as by a voice of a trumphet" when this appeal 
comes to them. To her we are indebted that 
George Washington became a patriotic American 
citizen. To her is due that grand character, cast in 
such heroic mould, that union of gigantic energy, 
5 



66 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

indomitable resolution, and dauntless courage which 
marked him the first of all his countrymen. It 
was she who kindled noble principles and purposes 
in his soul. At her side his genius budded and 
expanded. But for her wisdom and spirit he 
would have passed his youth upon the deck of a 
British man-of-war, trained for English service, and 
the sword which cleft the way to our victory would 
have been drawn for our oppressor. 

Women are giving their time and energies to 
building monuments to men. Their success is 
phenomenal. But the time has come when there 
must be commemorated in enduring marble the 
virtues of a woman, who shall be always to them 
the paragon of womanly excellence. Nothing is 
left undone to raise to a higher plane in this and 
foreign countries the memory of George Washing- 
ton ; but for years this beloved and faithful-hearted 
mother, whose protest against the plans of others 
to give him to England made him ours forever, 
has but a dilapidated ruin to mark her grave. 

Behind the gleaming marble the artist stands pro- 
claiming his immortal workmanship. What sculp- 
tor can point to that of Mary Washington ? It was 
she who moulded into grand symmetrical proportions 
this character so nearly perfect — it was she who 
gave him to his country. 

Women of America, marshal your forces ! Be- 
gin the work with energies quickened by the 
thought that she is yours ! 



THE FIRST APPEAL. 67 

Let every one of her sex, whatever her condition, 
come with her contribution. She who commands 
millions, will she not give thousands? She who by 
arduous daily toil earns a pittance, may she not 
cheerfully add her mite. 

We would not that this monument be built by a 
few generous men and women alone ; we want the 
pennies of the poor as well as the dollars of the rich. 
We would have every woman to share in the proud 
privilege of associating herself by her contribution 
in the work of erecting an imperishable memorial 
to that epitome of womanly virtues and graces — 
Mary, the mother of our beloved Washington. 

This Appeal comes to you from The National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association, char- 
tered February 22, 1890, in the District of Colum- 
bia. 

TRUSTEES. 

Hon. Benjamin Harrison, 

President of the United States {Ex-officio). 
Hon. Melville W. Fuller, 

Chief-Justice of the United States [Ex officio). 
Hon. Philip W. McKinney, 

Governor of Virginia {Ex-offido). 

lady managers, 

(and incorporators). 

President. 

Mrs. Amelia C. Waite. 

First Vice-President. 

Mrs. Matilda W. Emory. 



68 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Second Vice-President. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 

Secretary. 

Mrs. Margaret Hetzel. 

Miss Maud Lee Davidge. 

DIRECTORS, 
The President of the United States [Ex-officio). 
The Chief-Justice of the United States {Ex-officio). 
The Governor of the State of Virginia [Ex-officio). 

Vice-President. 

Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, 

1616 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington. 

Secretary. 

Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, 

Clifton Station, Va. 
Treasurer. 

E. Francis Riggs, 

Riggs' Bank, Washington, D. C. 

Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, 

1718 H Street, Washington, D. C. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, 

1653 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C. 

Miss Maud Lee Davidge, 

1624 H Street, Washington, D. C. 
Mr. Reginald Fendall, 

344 D Street, Washington, D. C. 
Mr. Blair Lee, 

344 D Street, Washington, D. C. 

A Vice-President to be appointed in each State, 
whose duty it shall be to organize branch associa- 
tions in her State, and adopt such measures as she 
may deem expedient to procure funds for the erec- 
tion of this monument, and for its future care and 
preservation ; also to secure the largest enrollment 
of members possible and forward the rolls of names 



THE FIRST APPEAL. 69 

with the sums contributed to the Secretary of the 
National Association for permanent record. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS OF STATES. 

Mrs. Senator Blair, New Hampshire. 

Mrs. Governor Dillingham, Vermont. 

Mrs. Roger Wolcott, Massachusetts. 

Mrs. Burrows, Rhode Island. 

Mrs. Nicholas Beach, Connecticut. 

Mrs. Senator McPherson, New Jersey. 

Miss Charlotte Pendleton, Philadelphia. 

Mrs. Senator Gray, . . . Delaware. 

Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, Maryland. 

Mrs. Senator Faulkner, ..... . . West Virginia. 

Mrs. Judge GooLRiCK, Virginia. 

Mrs. Senator Vance, North Carolina. 

Mrs. John W. Lewis, ... South Carolina. 

Miss Wheeler, Alabama. 

Mrs. Claudia B. Money, Mississippi. 

Mrs. J. Washington Story, , , Louisiana. 

Mrs. Senator Reagan, Texas. 

Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, Arkansas. 

Mrs, Mary B. Washington, Tennessee. 

Mrs. D. Mead Massie, Ohio. 

Mrs. Senator Cockrell, ... Missouri. 

Mrs. James S. Clarkson, Iowa. 

Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, Illinois. 

Mrs. Senator Stewart, . . Nevada. 

Mrs. Senator Hearst , California. 

Mrs. Senator Dolph, Oregon. 

Mrs. Senator Squire, Washington. 

MARGARET HETZEL, Sec'y. N. M. W. M. A. 



THE DAUGHTERS. 7 1 

Eugenia Washington, Mrs. Flora Adams 
Darling, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, Mrs. 
M. M. Hallowell, Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel, 
Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel, Mrs. Mary V. E. 
Cabell, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Mrs. Alice 
Morrow Clarke, Mrs. Ada P. Kimberly, Miss 
Mary Desha, Professor G. B, Goode, Pro- 
fessor W. C. Winlock, Mr. W. O. McDowell, 
Mr. Wilson L. Gill, Mrs. Aurelia Hadley 
Mohl, Miss Floride P. Cunningham, Miss 
Caroline L. Ransom, Mrs. Emily Lee Sher- 
wood, Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge, Mrs. 
Jennie D. Garrison and Pauline McDowell. 

After the Constitution, which had already 
been considered by the three Founders, had 
been submitted and approved; after Mrs. 
Caroline Scott Harrison had been elected 
President General and other offices had been 
filled, Miss Desha offered the following reso- 
lution : 

" That we should initiate that important part of 
the work, ' the securing and preserving the historical 
spots of America and the erection thereon of suita- 
ble monuments to perpetuate the memories of the 
heroic deeds of the men and women who aided the 
Revolution and created constitutional government 
in America ' by undertaking to do what we can to- 



72 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

wards completing the monument to the memory of 
Mary Washington, and we hereby call upon every 
patriot to send in a contribution large or small for 
this purpose." 

The resolution was passed unanimously, 
after which one of the ladies present an- 
nounced that the Secretary of the Mary 
Washington Memorial Association, Mrs. 
Margaretta Hetzel was present. The Secre- 
tary, who had been taken entirely by surprise 
could only rise and bow her acknowledge- 
ments to the welcome and congratulations 
extended her. 

Mrs. Waite joined the Daughters of the 
American Revolution on her return from 
Europe. Her number was 48. Mrs. Emory 
and Mrs. Lee both joined during the winter 
of 1892. Mrs. Lee was one of the most 
efficient of the early members of the infant 
society, so soon to become a great associa- 
tion. She was elected Regent of the Mary 
Washington Chapter at its organization, and 
still holds the office in 1901. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 

In January 189T the National Mary Wash- 
ington Memorial Association proposed that 
the Frederickburg Monument Association 
should give to the Trustees of the National 
Association, i. e., the President of the United 
States, ex-officio, the Chief Justice of the 
United States, ex-officio, and the Governor of 
Virginia, ex-officio, a deed of conveyance of 
the Mary Washington Monument lot condi- 
tional upon the National Association erecting a 
suitable monument over the grave of Mary 
Washington, to be begun not later than the 
22nd of February, 1894. In case of failure 
to do so "the title shall revert to the present 
owners." These conditions were accepted 
by the Fredericksburg Association. 

The first donation sent in after the Appeal 
was issued was ^12 from Mississippi, collected 
by Mrs. Campbell of Jackson, through Mrs. 
Money. 

On the 2 1 St of February, 1891, ($500) five 
(73) 



74 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

hundred dollars were presented by Mr. 
George W. Childs through Hon. Frank 
Hatton. 

On the next day the 22nd, at the first 
Annual Meeting, Mrs, Waite presented the 
following report: 

" We, as members and officers of the National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association, have come 
together for our annual meeting, and to review the 
work of the past year. While the actual showing 
is not great, I feel we have reason to be encouraged. 
It is much to organize and set in motion the ma- 
chinery for work and enterprise. There has been 
an immense amount of correspondence, printing, 
circulating of pamphlets, &c., as well as innumerable 
interviews and consultations. 

" We have tried to secure vice-presidents in every 
State and Territory of the Union. While in some 
States we have as yet been unsuccessful, in most 
instances we have representatives, and we hope ere 
long to have good working agents and favourable 
reports from every available point. So far, much of 
the money received has been expended in prelimi- 
nary work. We have printed and circulated 2,000 
copies of our by-laws and 30,000 circulars, calling 
attention to our work and inviting co-operation. 
The amount of postage which all this required was 
necessarily large. There has been no charge for 



THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 75 

time or labour, and the necessary expenses have 
been cut down as close as possible, consistent with 
the proper accomplishment of the work. 

" We have received cordial replies from the Vice- 
Presidents of twenty-seven States, many of whom 
have commenced work, but have not yet sent in 
their contributions, wishing doubtless to present 
their full contributions at one time. 

****** 

"While all the officers have worked well and 
faithfully, it seems but right that we should express 
our sincere gratitude to our Secretary, who has been 
so untiringly devoted to the work. She has been 
unceasing in her efforts, never losing faith, and in- 
spiring others through her enthusiasm. 

" Amelia C. Waite, President." 

The Secretary followed with a report in 
which she alluded to her difficulty in securing 
Vice-Presidents in these words: 

" Our great distance from many of the States and 
slight acquaintance with their people; the many 
difficulties when a selection having been made, we 
find that from ill health or other causes they were 
unable to undertake the work, made progress slow, 
and many have been our disappointments owing to 
ladies accepting and afterwards declining." 

After the meeting however, the contribu- 
tions began to come in. 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 77 

New Orleans in May, 1890, aided by Mrs. 
Charles Conrad, Mrs. William Preston John- 
ston, Miss Mildred Lee and others. They 
resolved to have the Carnival Ball of 1891 a 
Colonial Ball in honour of Mary Washington. 
On February loth the ball took place and 
the New Orleans daily papers thus describe it : 

" The National Mary Washington Memorial Ball, 
given at Odd Fellows Hall, was one of the most 
beautifnl entertainments of the kind ever held in 
New Orleans. The ladies under whose manage- 
ment the ball was given, were untiring in their 
efforts, and the result was a financial and brilliant 
social success. The hall was beautifully decorated 
with palms, ferns, palmettoes and other potted 
plants, the windows and chandelliers were draped 
with the colonial colours, blue and yellow. A fine 
band was in attendance, and discoursed delightful 
music before the formal opening of the ball by the 
minuet. About ten o'clock the door of the dining 
room opened, and those participating in the grand 
march and minuet entered as the band played the 
' Washington March.' First came a detachment of 
the Continental Guards in full uniform escorting 
General Washington, who was impersonated by 
Mr. Gus. A. Breaux, and Martha Washington in 
the person of Mrs. Benjamin S. Story, a descendant 
of the Washington family. They were followed by 



yS BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

twenty-four young ladies and gentlemen, each 
dressed to represent some prominent character of 
the colonial days. When the march was concluded 
and the floor cleared the couples went through the 
figures of the minuet. Miss Gretchen MuUer, as 
Mrs. Jefferson, her ancestress, led the minuet. 
Miss Muller was the personification of grace, and 
her dancing elicited comments of universal admira- 
tion. Her costume was particularly noticeable, 
and was a rich cream-coloured satin and gold 
brocade court train with petticoat of white satin, 
draped in gorgeous duchesse lace flounces, an heir- 
loom in the family ; her ornaments were pearls and 
cameos, also heirlooms. Miss Muller danced with 
Mr. Davidson Penn. * * * Miss Evelyn Krum- 
bhaar impersonated Nellie Custis, her ancestress, 
and was dressed in green satin train with white 
satin petticoat embroidered in red and green. The 
handsome lace she wore belonged to Martha Wash- 
ington and the shoe buckles worn were General 
Washington's. She danced with Mr. Wilcox. 
* * * Mrs. Mason Cooke as Mrs. Abigail Adams, 
wore yellow satin and gold brocade with jewelled 
girdle. Mrs. Gus. Breaux [Mrs. John Jay] wore a 
magnificent robe of brocaded satin, cream colour 
and point lace with jewelled trimmings and hand- 
some diamond ornaments." 

Among the treasures displayed was a pearl 
and brocade fan over a hundred years old. 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 79 

Mrs. Story was assisted by a fine corps of 
Managers, among them was Mrs. Charles A. 
Conrad. Her husband, Judge Conrad, was 
the orrandson of NeUie Custis and Lawrence 
Lewis, so that he was a descendant of both 
Mary and Martha Washington. 

The result of this beautiful carnival was 
$900, which the Secretary received a few days 
later. 

On March 17th, the Mary Washington 
Association had the great pleasure of wel- 
coming Mrs. Terhune in Washington City. 
She gave a lecture on Mary Washington, for 
the benefit of the cause, at the house of Mr. 
J. W. Thompson on I Street, Miss Ida 
Thompson having kindly offered her ball 
room for the lecture. The paper was entitled 
" Motherhood," and Mary Washington was 
the central figure. The audience was large 
and enthusiastic; as one young lady re- 
marked, " It was worth everything to see 
Marion Harland." This admirable lecture 
was one of a series that Mrs. Terhune de- 
livered for the Mary Washington Association, 
and which was such an important factor in 
building the monument. On May 5th she 



8o BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

sent the Treasurer ^836.50, and this was only 
the beginning of her good work. 

During that month of March, 1891, three 
Vice-Presidents sent in $400, Mrs. McPher- 
son of New Jersey, Mrs. Vance of North 
CaroHna, and Mrs. Keyser of Maryland. 

Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, the 
daughter of Lewis William Washington of 
Charles Town, West Virginia, great grand- 
son ot Mary Washington's son John Augus- 
tine, and also of her step-son Augustine, felt 
hampered in her work in Maryland, for it 
seemed as if she were soliciting for her 
family and her name; but she went bravely 
to work and collected dollar contributions 
from her friends in Baltimore, and when she 
sent in the amount collected, in March, she 
invited the National Board of Lady Managers 
to Baltimore to meet the 400 donors. 

Accordingly, Mrs. Waite, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. 
Hetzel, Miss Davidge and Miss Hetzel left 
Washington at 10 o'clock; they were met at 
the train by Mr. and Mrs. Keyser, taken to 
see the beauties of the Walters Gallery, 
whence they returned to Mrs. Keyser's to 
luncheon. They were hospitably entertained 




MRS. H. IRVINE KEYSER. 

Cnee Mary Washington-) 

Vice-President of Maryland. 



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by their hostess, assisted by her daughter, 
Miss Mary Washington Keyser, and her 
sister-in-law, Mrs. James Barroll Washing- 
ton. 

The Baltimore members of the Mary 
Washington Association came in to afternoon 
tea; the 400 of Baltimore, literally, as their 
donation testified, each wore the ribbon por- 
trait badge, the insignia of the dollar mem- 
bership. Every age was represented, from 
Miss Harriet Parks Alricks to the orrand- 

o 

children of Mrs. Andrew Reid, the grand- 
daughter of Betty Washington's youngest 
son, Howell Lewis. A dear little boy, An- 
drew Reid Bird, wore his badge with great 
pride saying: "I am a Mary Washington 
boy, and she is my grandma's great-grand- 
mother." Among those present was Mrs. 
Charles Bonaparte, Mrs. Henrietta Lay and 
Miss Anna Campbell, the daughters of Jus- 
tice John A. Campbell of the Supreme Court 
of the United States, and later of the Con- 
federacy; Mrs. Carr, daughter of Hon. Rev- 
erdy Johnson, Mrs. Laurason Riggs, and 
Miss Virginia Tayloe l>ewis, another descend- 
ant of Mary Washington, her father. Captain 
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82 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Henry Lewis being the grandson of Major 
George Lewis, son of Betty Washington, a 
member of the staff of his uncle. General 
Washington, and heir of one of his swords. 
A newspaper report of this gathering claimed 
that " never before was there an assemblage 
at which so many of the direct and collateral 
descendants of the distinguished and lovable 
woman whose memory it is proposed to per- 
petuate were present. Aside from the de- 
lightful social amenities of the occasion, it 
augurs well for the success of the movement 
which the ladies have at heart." 

On March 31st, 1891, Easter Tuesday, a 
beautiful ball was given in the Grand Opera 
House, Charleston, S.C., by the Vice- President 
for South Carolina, Mrs. Elise Rhett Lewis, 
who was appointed through Miss Floride 
Cunningham. 

The Charleston "News and Courier" thus 
describes it : 

" A magic wand must have swayed over the 
scene before the curtain rose, for the audience was 
transported to a grand and spacious ball room with 
a radiance of brilliant lights and luxurious hangings 
of ye olden time; gentlemen in fascinating short 
clothes, diamond knee buckles, powdered wigs and 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 83 

beautiful lace ruffles, and colonial dames and 
demoiselles in brocaded gowns that would ' stand 
alone ' in the midst of a grand ball given in honour 
of General Washington and his officers. * * 

" The capacious stage of the Grand Opera House, 
a ball-room in itself, was thrown into an apartment. 
On its gaily frescoed walls hung family portraits 
and rich mirrors. Costly portieres of crimson and 
buff damask and rare bits of tapestry hung over 
the doors and windows, while from crystal chande- 
lliers and silver sconces and candelabra glittered 
hundreds of wax candles. 

" To the strains of the Star Spangled Banner, 
General Washington [most faithfully personated on 
this occasion by Col. Charles Armstrong], attended 
by his generals [represented by the officers of the 
4th Brigade], entered the salon and marched to the 
music of the Union to the footlights. In the rear 
came the crimson foids of the Eutaw flag of historic 
memory borne by the sturdy colour sergeant of 
the Washington Light Infantry, William T. Salas, 
who thus recalled Jasper amid the plaudits of the 
audience." 

Colonel Armstrong as General Washing- 
ton, opened the pageant with a fine speech, 
concluding with these eloquent words : 

" Paeans have arisen from grateful hearts for the 
men who so successfully fought our battles. Shall 



84 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

the services and sacrifies of our noble women be 
forgotten ? Their faith it the triumph of our cause 
remained firm during the darkest days of the 
Revolution. We read in the Grecian story of the 
Lacedaemonian mother, who addressing her son 
going to battle said, ' Return, living with your 
shield or dead upon it.' Many American mothers 
not only emulated the heroines of ancient Sparta, 
but excelled them. They did not adjure their sons 
to do their duty. They had confidence in the 
courage and fidelity of their boys, and knew they 
preferred death to dishonour. When the lament- 
able tidings of the death of their sons reached them 
they shed tears of sorrow, but in the sanctuary of 
home, before the family altar, they humbly knelt 
and thanked the Creator that with these tears of 
sorrow there were no tears of shame. The women 
of America did as much for our cause as the men. 
Among the names that shine star-like in the firma- 
ment of the Nation's glory are those of Mrs. Motte, 
Mrs. Bratton, Mrs. Elliot and Mrs. Brewton." 

The Sir Roger de Coverly followed, danced 
by fifty couples, then some choice musical 
selections were succeeded by the "Tempest 
Dance," more music, and finally, the Minuet, 
led by Mrs. Edward Simons and Mr. Du 
Bose Boylston, which gave all a splendid 
opportunity for the study of heirlooms and 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 85 

jewels. The ball then became general, and 
the stage was soon filled with the modern 
dresses of the audience, mingled with the 
colonial costumes of the performers. 

'* Many of those taking part in the entertainment 
were direct descendants of Colonial dignitaries, 
representing the famiHes of Washington, Allston, 
Landgrave, Smith, Pinckney, Rutledge, Pickens, 
Hayne, Simons, Huger, Grimke, EHot, Rhett, 
Barnwell, Marion, Moultrie and others. One of 
the ladies of the reception committee was a g-g-g-g- 
great granddaughter of Joseph Ball, the father of 
Mary Ball, afterwards Mrs. Washington, and also a 
g-g-g-g-great granddaughter of Lawrence Wash- 
ington, brother of John, the great grandfather of 
George. Some descendants of noted tories were 
also there, uniting amicable with the whigs in doing 
honour to the mother of the greatest man of a great 
nation." 

Among the beautiful costumes described 
were two gowns that once belonged to Mrs. 
Rebecca Motte, worn by her descendants 
Miss Alice Rutledge and Mrs. H. E. Young. 
Mrs. Young also wore a beautiful Washing- 
ton medallion. Mrs. J. Langdon Weber 
wore an eleg-ant historic costume and carried 
a fan that had once belonged to a niece of 



86 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Mary Ball. Mrs, H. Tupper wore a bro- 
caded silk 300 years old. 

"And so," concluded the News and 
Courier, " the Mary Washington Ball has 
passed into history, one of the most brilliant 
triumphs of the social world of Charleston," 

Mrs. Lewis was assisted by Mrs. George 
M. Trenholm and other ladies, 117 dollars 
were netted by the entertainment, which with 
membership fees and dues and collections 
from many sources mounted to ^587, which 
were gladly and gratefully received by the 
Board. 

On being asked to suggest a Vice-Presi- 
dent for New York State, Mrs. Ellen Hardin 
Walworth named Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, of 
Albany. The Secretary wrote to Mrs. Pruyn 
who replied that she could not take the office 
herself as she was going to Europe, but she 
recommended her friend, Mrs. Catherine 
Gansevoort Lansing of Albany. Mrs. Lans- 
ing accepted, and her constant, faithful, un- 
tiring service has been unequaled. 

Mrs. Stewart, having lost a beloved daugh- 
ter in 1890, and feeling, on that account, un- 
equal to attending to the Mary Washington 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 87 

work in Nevada, recommended Mrs. Gov- 
ernor Adams as her successor. Mrs. Hetzel 
wrote to Mrs. Adams, who responded so ad- 
mirably, that she sent the following spring 
$213.35 the result of her industry and enter- 
prise. This donation, from the smallest State 
in population, greatly cheered the Board. 

On June ist, 1891, Mrs. Waite left Wash- 
ington for a visit to the Pacific Coast. Be- 
fore leaving she sent to the Secretary a letter 
from Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, announcing that 
she had forwarded to the Treasurer one 
thousand and ninety-two dollars and ten 
cents ($1092.10) collected in California, the 
largest contribution that had been made. 

Miss Waite had written to a friend in Colo- 
rado inviting her to be Vice-President for 
that State, but the lady declined, saying that 
Colorado was too poor a State to be raising 
funds for outside objects. Mrs. Hetzel, how- 
ever, felt that there must be women in Colo- 
rado ready to do their part in honouring the 
grave of the mother of Washington, so by 
the advice of a friend — the former Seccetary 
of the Mount Vernon Association — she wrote 
to Bishop Spalding of Colorado, who re- 



88 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

sponded in a sympathetic and appreciative 
letter, recommending the wife of Judge 
Macon, of Denver, as the most capable and 
energetic woman in the State. Mrs. Hetzel 
wrote at once to Mrs. Macon, who responded 
immediately saying that she would gladly ac- 
cept the Vice-Presidency, for she took the 
greatest interest in the subject, as the old 
monument was one of her earliest memories. 
She was a Virginian, and her childhood home 
was on the farm adjoining Kenmore. The 
subject recalled her youth in Virginia, and 
she wrote most interesting letters full of 
reminiscenses, of visits across the Rappahan- 
nock to Chatham and Pine Grove; of the 
stories told- by her mother and grandmother 
of General Washington's visits to his mother. 
When they told of Madam Washington tend- 
erly brushing the powder from her son's coat, 
she, a child, knowing nothing of hair powder, 
thought that the General must have visited 
his mother fresh from the battlefield with the 
gunpowder still covering his garments. 

On June ist, 1891, Mrs. Macon gave a 
theatrical entertainment for the benefit of the 
Mary Washington fund. She herself wrote 



RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 89 

appeals to the Sons of America, the G. A. R., 
the Freemasons of Colorado and other so- 
cieties, urging them to rescue from oblivion 
and neglect the grave of Mary Washington, 
and erect a monument worthy of such a son. 
She was indefatigable; every Denver news- 
paper had some appeal or article written 
either by Mrs. Macon herself or by some of 
her many friends. Among these contribu- 
tions was an interestinof account of a visit to 
the old monument and Mary Washington's 
home by Mrs. Belford, the wife of a Denver 
Congressman. 

The amateur theatricals were a complete 
success. "The Rough Diamond," " Les 
Precieuses Ridicules," and " Dominick's 
Love," were admirably rendered by Miss 
Maude Durbin, Miss Anna Cooper, Mr. John 
R. Sumner and others. Mrs. Mason sent to 
the Secretary ^288.18 as the result. 

During the month of June the Secretary 
received a donation of ^50 from Mr. Have- 
meyer of New York, through Mrs, Goolrick 
of Fredericksburg. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

MRS. PRYOR AT THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 

Early in the spring of 1891, Mrs. Emory, 
I St Vice-President of the Mary Washington 
Association, received a letter from Mrs. 
Roger A. Pryor of New York, then Regent 
of the New York City Chapter D. A. R., ex- 
pressing great interest in the Mary Wash- 
ington Association, and asking to be allowed 
to aid the cause. She was made Vice-Presi- 
dent at Large among the Daughters of the 
American Revolution and the Colonial 
Dames, and at once began her work. For 
several months she collected dollar member- 
ships. In May, 1891, she wrote to the Sec- 
retary asking the price of a Life Membership. 
The Secretary after much consultation with 
the President and the Vice-Presidents, replied 
that the price of a Life Membership would be 
^25. Mrs. Pryor responded by sending ^25 
for a Life Membership for Mrs. H. F. Lovell, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

At a meeting of the incorporators on May 
(90) 




MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR. 

(nee Sarah Agnes Rice.) 
Vice-President at T.arge- 



AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 9 1 

26th, the last one held before the President's 
departure for California, the design for the 
life member's badge was decided upon and 
the resolutions adopted to make the Life 
Membership hereditary. The design, a five- 
pointed star, with the head of Mary Wash- 
ington in the centre, was suggested by Miss 
Hetzel. In June, Mrs. Hetzel with her 
daughter consulted Dr. Hoffman, of the U. S. 
Geological Survey, about the proposed in- 
signia, he being an acknowledged authority 
in such matters, having perfected the beauti- 
ful idea of the spinning wheel as the insignia 
of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion. Dr. Hoffman kindly lent his aid, ap- 
proved the design and recommended Cald- 
well & Co., of Philadelphia, as the jewellers 
to execute the work. 

Mrs. Pryor was spending the summer at 
the White Sulphur Springs, where she was 
earnestly working for the Mary Washington 
Monument. She collected many dollar con- 
tributions, and persuaded the ladies to make 
their annual fete a Mary Washington Colon- 
ial Ball. Every one attending was requested 
to purchase a Mary Washington badge. 



92 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 

Mrs. Pryor, finding that several of the guests 
would like to become life members, wrote to 
Mrs. Hetzel asking her if it were not pos- 
sible to have some bado-es finished so that 
they might be worn at the ball. Mrs. Het- 
zel wrote at once to Caldwell and Co. that 
there was a demand for the insignia. The 
representative of Caldwell at once repaired 
to the country home of Mrs. Hetzel at Clif- 
ton, Virginia, with a specimen medal which 
was found eminently satisfactory. Fifty 
medals were ordered, and five sent to Mrs. 
Pryor, and at the Colonial ball at the White 
Sulphur Springs, the beautiful insignia of the 
Mary Washington Association made its first 
appearance. 

At the grand pageant that opened the ball, 
Mrs. Pryor k^d the march as Mary Washing- 
ton, escorted by Governor Fitzhugh Lee, who 
might have impersonated either Light Horse 
Harry, or his other renowned ancestor, 
George Mason. Mrs. Pryor was dressed in 
antique treasures of silks, laces and jewels, 
sent for the occasion by the ladies of the 
Fredericksburg- Monument Association, but 
her most conspicuous treasure was a gold 



AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 93 

Mary Washington star presented by the lady 
managers of the ball. 

It was decided by a committee of ladies 
who aided Mrs. Pryor, that part of the pro- 
ceeds should be used for presenting medals: 
to Mrs. Annie Camm, of Richmond, for great 
services; to General Charles Anderson, for 
securing the Virginia colors and U. S. colors 
to decorate the ball room ; and to Miss Mary 
Custis Lee, as a testimonial to her father. 

The other Hereditary Life Members pres- 
ent were Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, of Phila- 
delphia; Mrs. Charles H. Senff, of Long 
Island; Mrs. Cross, of Emporia, Kansas; 
Miss Jennie Inman, now Mrs. Payne, of New 
York City, and Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
of Washington, D. C, Original Incorporator. 

The ball room was decorated in the most 
exquisite manner with flowers, flags and 
banners; the American Flag and the State 
banner of West Virginia, the State banner of 
Virginia sent by the Governor of Virginia, 
and the official State flag of the Governor of 
New York lent for the occasion by Governor 
Hill ; as a prominent official remarked : 
" that Mrs. Pryor might stand beneath the 



94 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

banner of her native State and the State ot 
her adoption." 

The costumes were superb, and Mrs. 
Pryor wrote that it was conceded by all that 
it was the most beautiful ball ever given at 
that world renowned summer resort, the 
White Sulphur Springs. 

Mrs. Pryor's untiring zeal and unsurpassed 
ability resulted in securing $803.00 for the 
monument. 

Medals were sent to the five Original In- 
corporators, and to all persons who had 
previously given $25 or more. Mrs. Russell 
A. Alger of Michigan, Mrs. John V. L. 
Pruyn of Albany, and Mr. Havemeyer of 
New York, all received medals, likewise Mr. 
George W. Childs, who sent a most graceful 
and interesting letter of acknowledgment. 




INSIGNIA. 
Obverse Side. 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE ILLINOIS BRANCH. 



Mrs. Waite, on her return from the Pacific 
Coast stopped at Chicago and there presided 
at a meeting called September ist, 1891, to 
organize the Illinois Branch of the National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association. 
The meeting was held at the Leland Hotel. 
Chief Justice Fuller opened the meeting with 
an address explaining the objects of the As- 
sociation. Judge Lyman Trumbull followed 
in an eloquent address, dwelling on the 
womanliness of Mary Washington and urging 
that the children of to-day might be taken 
back to the Colonial simplicity of the time in 
which she lived. 

Dr. H. W. Thomas preached a sermon the 
following Sunday on "The Higher Values," 
and one of his sentences I will transcribe : 

" And there is one more name that this land 
should honor; it should build a monument to the 
mother of Washington; and in doing this, a monu- 
(95) 



96 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

ment to the mothers of the land who bore and 
reared its soldiers, its generals and its presidents; a 
monument to motherhood. And it is fitting that 
the noble women of the land are working for this 
worthy object as one feature of the Columbian Ex- 
position; and the money should not be the gift of 
a few, but the glad offering of all the children and 
the men and women of every State." 

Mrs. Trumbull was formally elected Presi- 
dent, though she had been working many 
months for the cause. She was a cousin of 
the President and Secretary as was also her 
renowned husband. With the enthusiasm 
and patriotism inherited from a long line of 
Revolutionary ancestors, Seldens, Mathers 
and Dudleys, she went to work. She en- 
listed many Hereditary Life Members; among 
others Mrs. Potter Palmer, her mother 
Mrs. Honore, Miss Colvin, Mrs. Wilmarth 
and Mrs. General Stuart. Many entertain- 
ments were given, concerts and lecture by 
Mrs. John Sherwood. On February 22nd, 
1892, a Colonial Tea was given to the lady 
managers of the Columbian Exposition there 
assembled in conference. Mrs. Trumbull, 
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Shepard, Mrs. Ida 



THE ILLINOIS BRANCH, 97 

Preston Gibson and other distinguished 
Chicago women did the honours of the occa- 
sion. Mrs. Trumbull sent ^i,ooo to the 
Secretary as the result of her good work in 
Illinois. 
7 



CHAPTER XVI. 

WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK IN I 89 2, 

In January, 1892, Mrs. Cilley [now Mrs. 
Arthur Clarke], of New Hampshire, was 
spending the winter in Washington. She 
gathered around her a bevy of the most 
beautiful and gifted young girls ol the Capitol 
and gave some parlor theatricals in the ban- 
queting hall of the Arlington, for the benefit 
of the Mary Washington Monument. As- 
sisted by her friend, Mrs. Harris, who super- 
intended the music, aided by the Marine 
Band, Mrs. Cilley showed herself an efficient 
and untiring stage manager and worker. 
"The Bachelor's Dream the Night before the 
Wedding," a tableau vivant, was beautifully 
rendered. Mr. Wilson, as the bachelor, must 
have been an artist and a traveller, for he 
saw visions of beautiful women from all over 
the world. To the music of " How So Fair," 
Miss Knowles glided in in an empire gown, 
followed by the strains of the Mikado usher- 
ing in Miss Sutherland in, a real Japanese 
(98) 



WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. 99 

costume, as if actually " In Tokio." " In Lu- 
cerne " brought Miss Skerrett, in a veritable 
Swiss peasant's dress, to the music of "La 
Fille de Madame Angot." "In Rome," a 
nun, portrayed by Miss Thompson, piously 
turned away her head to the strains of the 
prayer from "Der Freischutz." The solem- 
nity of this devoted maiden was soon forgot- 
ten, for "Come With the Gypsey Bride" 
brought Miss Courtney Walthall, so radiant 
in her scarlet and gold that I am sure every 
young man present wished that he too were 
"In Bohemia." To another andante, "Fair 
Harvard," came a Boston girl, not in the 
eye-glasses of to-day, but a sweet-faced Pris- 
cilla. Miss Eastman. Miss Cambell followed 
as a Spanish lady, while the band played the 
fandango ; Miss Kelton glided in, striking a 
lyre, to the strains of the "Maid of Athens;" 
"A Daughter of the Cavaliers," Miss Annie 
Rundlett, rustled in to the miusic of "Amaryl- 
lis," in an old brocade that had graced the 
Williamsburo- Court in the olden time. This 
vision of loveliness was succeeded by Miss 
Washburn, who entered as a beautiful bride 
to the Wetl'3ing march ; the bachelor fell on 



lOO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

his knees before the chosen one, and the 
scene closed. 

This was followed by a pretty little comedy, 
" The Only Young Man in Town," in which 
Mr. Pierre Stevens found himself pursued by 
a managing mamma with an sesthetic daugh- 
ter, half a dozen other love-lorn maidens and 
a designing widow. Miss Victoria Emory, 
Misses Denver, Cuthbert, Cabell, Mattingly 
and Gibson all acted admirably. Miss Marion 
Thomas was charming as the coquette and so 
was sweet simplicity. Miss Eastman, while the 
finished acting of Miss Tisdel, now the Bar- 
oness de Wollant, was a rare treat. 

The patronesses were Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. 
McKee. Mesdames Morton, Foster, Elkins, 
Wanamaker, Noble, Rusk, Field, Harlan, 
Brown, Scofield, Sheridan, Ramsay, Stanford, 
Hammond, Kaufman, Haywood, Henderson, 
Outhwaite, Cable, Leiter, Riggs, Carpenter, 
Cabell, Hay, Calderon, Carlisle, Madame 
Romero and the Countess Maximillian Es- 
terhazy. 

There were many beauties in the audience 
as well as on the stage, among them was 
Miss May Cuyler, daughter of Captain Cuy- 



WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. lOI 

ler, of the Army; she is now Lady Grey 
Edgerton, and is considered one of the most 
beautiful women in Eno-land. 

This charmingentertainment added $535.00 
to the fund. 

Mrs. James Fairman, of New York, under 
the auspices of the New York City Chapter, 
D. A. R., sent $37.00 very soon afterwards, 
the proceeds of a concert given in New York 
by the Spanish Students, the Chickering Male 
Quartette and other artists. A poem on 
Mary Washington, by Colonel James Fair- 
man, was written for this occasion. 

On March 31st, a matinee was given at 
the Lyceum Theatre, New York, under the 
patronage of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and the 
New York City Chapter of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

The "Duchess of Baywater," a most amus- 
ing farce, was admirably rendered by Mrs. 
Charles Avery Doremus in the title role, 
supported by Miss Ward, Mr. James K. 
Hackett, Mr. Arthur Doremus, Mr. West 
and Miss Chapman. "Love in '76" followed 
with Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood as Rose Ells- 
worth in a dainty colonial costume, assisted 



r02 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

by Mrs. Wood and Messrs. Lindsay, Bird, 
Hull, Curtis and others. 

The theatre was beautifully decorated with 
banners and flags lent to Mrs. Pryor by the 
Secretary of the Navy, accompanied by a 
courteous letter written by the chief of the 
Bureau, George Dewey. 

Among the ladies present were Mrs. J. 
Burrows Greene, the daughter of Silas Bur- 
rows, the generous donor of the original 
monument; Mrs. Donald McLean, Mrs, 
Ogden Doremus and Madame Adalina Patti 
Nicolini. The latter received an ovation 
when she appeared in her box. Mrs. Pryor, 
the originator of the entertainment, was also 
warmly welcomed. Upwards of $500 were 
cleared by this entertainment. After the 
matinee it was decided to present two silver 
medals to Mrs. Charles Avery Doremus and 
Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood. 

On March 31, a special meeting of the 
Board of Directors was held when Mrs. 
Waite submitted a letter from Marion Har- 
land, offering to write a biographical sketch 
of Mary, the mother of George Washington, 
the copyright to be transferred to the 



WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. IO3 

National Mary Washington Memorial Asso- 
ciation for the sum of five hundred dollars. 
The offer was accepted unanimously. "The 
Story of Mary Washington" was issued in 
the Autumn. 

Mrs. Terhune spent many months in Fred- 
ericksburg collecting every tradition of Mary 
Washington from those who heard it direct 
from their parents, grandparents, and all 
who remembered the dear "Old Madame" 
as she was affectionately called. When the 
Secretary wrote telling how she had enjoyed 
the little volume, the author responded: 'T 
have so lived with the heroine of the 'story' 
for the last year that she seems like my inti- 
mate and familiar friend, and praise of her is 
sweet." 

In the spring of 1892, Mrs. Pryor wrote a 
very interesting sketch of Mary Washington 
for the Home Journal. The Century, also 
published an article entitled: "The Mother 
and Birthplace of Washington," by Ella Bas- 
sett Washington, widow of Lewis William 
Washington, of West Virginia, the father of 
Mrs. Keyser, the Vice-President for Mary- 
land. Mrs. Washington not only married a 



I04 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

descendant of Mary Washington, but she was 
herself her descendant, being the great 
granddaughter of Betty Lewis. Her article 
is most interesting, being full of family tra- 
ditions, and of reminiscences of her great 
ancestress, as told by her father, and her 
grandfather, Robert Lewis, the boy who met 
Lafayette in the garden where his grand- 
mother was tending her flowers, the young 
man who was present when the General 
received the news of his mother's death. 

Mrs. Washington's article concludes with 
a beautiful tribute to the Mary Washington 
Association. She was the Mount Vernon 
Vice-Regent for West Virginia. The Mary 
Washington Association had to thank the 
ladies of the Mount Vernon Association for 
much kind interest and advice. One of the 
Vice-Regents, Mrs. Hearst of California, is 
also Vice-President of the Mary Washington 
Association for her State. Mrs. Ball of 
Virginia, and Mrs. Barnes of the District of 
Columbia, have shown great interest and 
have been very helpful. 

In May, the Mary Washington Chapter ol 
the Daughters of the American Revolution, 



WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. IO5 

the first Chapter organized in Washington 
City, and the mother of many Chapters, all 
over the country, gave a lecture in honor of 
their "Patron Saint." The lecturer was Miss 
Janet Richards, then Recording Secretary of 
the chapter; the subject was: "The Passion 
Play at Ober-Ammergau." Miss Richards' 
gifts as a lecturer are well known, and of 
course the entertainment was a great success. 
Eighty dollars were sent to the Treasurer by 
the Regent of the Chapter, Mrs. Admiral 
Lee, who was also Vice-President of the 
Mary Washington Board of Directors, and 
later President of the Hereditary Life Mem- 
bers. 

During the summer of 1892 Mrs. Waite 
spent much time and travel in search of a 
design for a monument. She examined many 
monuments, consulting the best artists within 
reach, and she finally selected three designs 
to be submitted to the Board of Directors for 
a choice, should any among them prove satis- 
factory. The three designs, one from a New 
York firm, one from Manning of Washington, 
and one from Crawford of Buffalo, were care- 
fully examined and discussed, and that of 
Crawford unanimously preferred. 



I06 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

The President and Secretary visited Fred- 
ericksburg in October, viewed the ground 
and consulted with the ladies of the Fred- 
ericksburg Association. 

In December, 1892, the contract for the 
monument was signed between the National 
Mary Washington Association and John 
Crawford & Son, of Buffalo, N. Y. 




MRS. M. V. MACON. 

X'ice-Prcsident of Colorado. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER, 

On February 14th, 1893, the Mary Wash- 
ington Association of Colorado, under its 
invaluable and indefatigable Vice-President, 
Mrs. Thomas Macon, gave a Colonial ball in 
the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver. The 
Denver reporter thus describes it: 

" The grand colonial ball at the Palace last night 
was the most brilliant social event in the history of 
the western half of the western hemisphere. It 
were strange if the names of the patronesses of this 
event in aid of the National Mary Washington As- 
sociation, led by those gracious ladies, the wives 01 
gentlemen whom Colorado has honoured with its 
chief executive chair, Mesdames Waite, Routt, 
Cooper and Grant, had not stamped the occasion as 
one of the very highest social order; but to this 
was added the largest and most dazzling array of 
the elite of Denver citizenship ever attracted to one 
gathering of fashion and beauty. 

"Over 1000 ladies and gentlemen thronged the 
magnificant parlours, balconies, rotunda and banquet 
hall of the fine st hotel on the continent. The music 
(107) 



I08 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

the perfume, the flowers and the bewildering beauty 
of feminine loveliness and exquisite costumes, de- 
signed by the modistes of the two continents, com- 
bined to form a picture rarely equalled and never 
surpassed even in the greatest cities of the new 
world. 

" It was fitting that in Denver, the youngest and 
fairest of the cities of the land of liberty, the memory 
of her who gave to the world its grandest character 
should be' so splendidly honoured. * * * 

"The remark of a Denver lady will become one 
of the heritages of the nation's treasure of lofty 
sentiment, when she said that the object of the As- 
sociation is 'a lofty impulse which prompts the 
women of America to buy this ground for their 
very own, that the deed of transfer may be forever 
inviolable.' 

"The magnificant hotel was ablaze with light, 
warmth and radiance of colour. From the topmost 
tier of the balconies to the spacious rotunda, 130 
feet beneath, all was a moving panorama of beauty. 
St. Valentine's Day in the Columbian year was 
strikingly perpetuated for all time as the occasion 
of an event unapproached even by the most elabo- 
rate of society's triumphs." 

In the parlors on the second floor a court 
reception was held. Governor and Mrs. 
Waite with the Governor's staff in full uni 



VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER. IO9 

form, and officers from Fort Logan received 
gendemen with powdered hair and full cos- 
tume and ladies with coronets of snowy 
tresses and gowns of Colonial aad Parisian 
fashion. 

The dancing took place in the grand 
rotunda with its walls of onyx and its floors 
of marble. As the dancers appeared for the 
majestic polonaise and the minuet the scene 
was most brilliant; the nine balconies and 
the winding stairways were crowded with 
thousands of spectators all unconscious that 
they themselves in their old time costumes 
were a part of the wonderful picture. 

Among the many magnificent costumes 
none attracted more attention than the gown 
worn by Miss May Patrick. It was truly a 
colonial production, and it had adorned the 
ladies of Miss Patrick's family for over a 
hundred years. An ashes ot roses silk 
trimmed with navy blue, with full skirts, 
puffed elbow sleeves and low corsage edged 
with rich old point applique. It was doubt- 
less the most ancient costume ever worn in 
the West. 

Miss Nancy Craig Green, of Culpeper, 



I lO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Va., a great grand niece of Mary Washing- 
ton, was one of the belles of the ball. She 
wore a white silk with moss green embroid- 
eries, an heirloom of colonial days that had 
belonged to her ancestress, Hannah Ball, 
sister of Mary. 

The banquet was as unique as the rest ot 
the ball. The tables groaned beneath a 
veritable colonial menu^ discovered by Marion 
Harland in an old i8th century recipe 
book, and copied into her colonial novel 
"His Great Self." Roasted shoats, huge 
turkeys, beaten biscuit, hot waffles, old 
fashioned cake and other old Virginia deli- 
cacies. 

The flowers decorated the tables in such 
profusion that the supper table seemed 
almost like a conservatory. The principal 
decoration was a representation of the peace 
ball at Fredericksburg. The miniature build- 
ing, four feet square, was in the form of a 
Court House with a statue of Justice sur- 
mounting the dome. The figures, 42 in num- 
ber, were six inches in height. General 
Washington with his mother on his arm was 
represented walking down the centre of the 



VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER. I I I 

mall room while the guests stood on each 
side with their heads bowed in reverence. A 
cluster of arcs of electric light hung from the 
dome and tiny columns adorned with minia- 
ture electric lights surrounded the building 
which stood on a flowery embankment bor- 
dered with tulips and chrysanthemums. 

$1,030 were sent to the Secretary as the 
receipts trom this beautiful ball, the result of 
the untiring and devoted work of Mrs. Macon. 
She not only superintended all the arrange- 
ments, but she worked with her pen and her 
brain towards perfecting them. She wrote 
numberless articles for the daily press all 
over Colorado, and secured reduced rates on 
the trains which brought hundreds of guests 
from the neighboring towns. She was 
greatly aided by Mrs. Hedges and Mrs. 
Arbuckle, of Denver, and Mrs. M. D. 
Thatcher, of Pueblo, all Hereditary Life 
Members of the Association; but Mrs. Macon 
was the life and soul of the movement, and 
it seemed impossible that one brain and one 
body could have accomplished so much. 

As has been before stated the patronesses 
of the ball who contributed greatly to the 



112 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

prestige of the occasion were the wives of 
four Colorado Governors: Mrs. Waite, Mrs. 
Routt, Mrs. Cooper and Mrs, Grant. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



WORK IN MANY STATES. 



Miss Mary Desha, when Vice-President 
for Kentucky, aroused much interest in that 
State. Several Hereditary Life Members 
were enlisted and a liberal donation was sent 
by the John Marshall Chapter of Louisville, 
the proceeds of a lecture given by Senator 
Lindsay at the house of the Regent, Mrs. 
Sallie Marshall Ewing Pope. Mrs. Lindsay 
is now Vice-President for Kentucky, Miss 
Desha having resigned on account of being 
too far from Kentucky. She is now one of 
the Vice-Presidents-at-Large. 

Mrs. Mary B. K. Washington, the Vice- 
President for Tennessee, has also done ex- 
cellent work. She has enlisted many Heredi- 
tary Life Members, among them Mrs. Van 
Leer Kirkman, the President of the Atlanta 
Exposition. 

Mrs. McPherson, the first Vice-President 
for New Jersey, raised $400 the first year 
and continued very active and efficient until 
8 (113) 



114 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

obliged by ill health to go to Europe. She 
then resigned and Mrs. Margaret Herbert 
Mather was appointed her successor. Mrs. 
Mather worked faithfully, with good results, 
until obliged by ill health to cease work. 
Both these ladies have passed away within 
the past year. 

Mrs. Dolph, of Oregon, and Mrs. Squire, 
of Washington State, have done excellent 
work on the Pacific Coast. They have each 
raised not less than four hundred dollars. 
The Mary Bell Chapter of Tacoma and the 
Rainier Chapter of Seattle have sent dona- 
tions. 

California, in addition to the work done by 
Mrs, Hearst and her able assistants, has sent 
many donations through the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. Mrs. Maddox, for 
many years State Regent, is a Hereditary 
Life Member. The Sequoia Chapter has 
done much, through the earnest efforts of 
Mrs. S. Isabelle Hubbard, of San Francisco, 
who has had the Mary Washington medal 
conferred upon her by the Valentine Holt 
Society of the Children of the American Rev- 
olution, of which Society she is President. 




MRS. AUGUSTA M. DOLPH. 
Vice-President of Oregon. 



WORK IN MANY STATES. I 1 5 

Mrs. Newport, the Vice-President for Min- 
nesota, is an earnest and faithful worker, and 
has enrolled among the H. L. M.'s some of 
the most distinguished and popular women 
of her State. 

Mrs. Lipscomb, the Vice-President for 
Georgia, has raised several hundred dollars 
among the Georgia Chapters. 

The Rhode Island Chapters, through their 
Vice-President, Mrs. Wilbour, and their State 
Regent, Miss Knight, have contributed gen- 
erously. The Gaspee Chapter of Providence 
holds a Hereditary Life Membership. 

The Vice-President for Ohio, Mrs. D. 
Meade Massie, has enlisted several Heredi- 
tary Life Members, among them Mrs. Lucre- 
tia R. Garfield. Excellent work has been 
done in the Cincinnati Chapter, principally 
through the influence of their Regent, Mrs. 
Brent Arnold, and the efforts of Mrs. Judge 
Conner. Some of the leading women of 
Cincinnati have joined, among them : Mrs. 
Thomas, Mrs. Greeve, Miss Laws, Miss 
Harrison, Mrs. Hinkle, Miss Doane, Mrs. 
Hulbert and her daughter, Mrs. Perin. Mrs. 
Emery, of Cincinnati, has also become an 



Il6 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Hereditary Life Member through Mrs. Waite. 

Mrs. Clifton R. Brecken ridge, Vice-Presi- 
dent for Arkansas and one of the first Vice- 
Presidents to serve, did faithful service in her 
State and elsewhere until her departure for 
Russia. She was the second Ambassador's 
wife to wear the Mary Washington star at a 
foreign Court. Mrs. Theodore D. Runyon 
being the first and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, 
Jr., the third. 

In April, 1893, Miss Waite wrote to Mrs. 
Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, asking her to 
be the Vice-President for Michigan. Mrs, 
Palmer accepted, and in spite of ill health 
went resolutely to work in her State. Not- 
withstanding the hard times and discouraging 
responses from many towns in the State, 
Mrs. Palmer succeeded in contributing over 
$300 in a few months, ^100 being her own 
donation. Mrs. Whittier, of Saginaw, gave a 
beautiful colonial ball, and a handsome and 
successful entertainment was gfiven at Grand 
Rapids by Mrs. Pantlind; but prairie fires 
and storms, with the increasing financial de- 
pression of that time, added to the continued 
ill health of Mrs. Palmer compelled her to 
discontinue her work for a time. 




IMRS- ABRAHAM LANSING. 

fNEE Catherine Gansvoort.) 
Vice-President of New York. 



WORK IN MANY STATES. 11'/ 

It is impossible to do full justice to the 
work done in New 'York. Mrs. Pryor as 
Vice-President at Large, the New York City 
Chapter under the efficient and untiring 
chairmanship of Mrs. Fairman, and to Mrs. 
Lansing the State Vice-President. The fol- 
lowing extract from an appeal published in 
the Albany Argus for June 15, 1893, will 
show not only the spirit that actuated the 
Vice-President, but how she awakened that 
spirit in others: 



" I appeal to you without hesitation to enroll 
your names among those who, for love of country, 
the credit of our State and the honour of our sex, 
shall give their aid, and at least the influence of 
their names and examples to a cause sacred of itself 
and peculiarly your own, through the method in 
which it is to be carried through. 

"Your contributions will not certainly in the 
sense that they will minister to any physical need 
or misfortune be called a charity, but that they will 
be for a purpose educational and beneficial in the 
highest degree, it does not seem to me rational to 
question. To suggest that such an undertaking is 
not practical, or is unnecessary or unworthy be- 
cause it will minister to a sentiment and not to 



Il8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

a physical want, is surely to repudiate the influence 
of the example of lofty character and noble deeds 
in shaping the civilization of our race. 

" The design of the monument has been chosen. 
Most appropriately as it seems to me, it will be in 
the form of an obelisk. My hope is that the women 
of America will be moved to build it well and to 
provide for its constant and tender care; not only 
thereby to preserve the memory of the life which it 
will commemorate, but to testify continually to the 
world that the worth of that life and the value of its 
services to our country, so long and shamelessly 
ignored, are decorously recognized and publicly 
proclaimed. 

" On the spot which was chosen for her last rest- 
ing placs by the noble woman whose life it will 
typify, rising in that severe and unassailable form of 
Egyptian art, which has been the admiration and 
wonder of the ages, may it silently and eloquently 
declare the grandeur and simplicity of the character 
of Washington, and testify to the devotion and in- 
spired love which moulded that character into its 
marvellous symmetry and strength. 
" Yours very truly, 

" Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, 
"Vice-President for New York State N, M. W. M. A." 



r 




IMRS. EDWARD ROBY. 
(nee Lilia p. Goster.) 
Vice-President at Large. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



AT THE WORLD S FAIR. 



Mr. Crawford, the architect of the Mary- 
Washington Monument prepared a beautiful 
model of the monument in white marble, five 
feet hip-h, to be exhibited at the World's Fair. 

It was first placed in the Woman's Depart- 
ment, but through the courtesy of Mrs. Beale, 
the Commissioner in charge of the Virginia 
Exhibit, it was afterwards removed to the 
Mount Vernon building, at the suggestion ot 
Miss Desha, aided by the untiring energy 
and boundless generosity of Mrs. Edward 
Roby of Chicago. There was inaugurated a 
series of afternoon teas which became one ot 
the pleasantest features of the great expo- 
sition ; a daily social gathering welcomed by 
Mrs. Trumbull, the Vice-President for Illinois. 

In October, a brilliant colonial reception 
was held in the New York State building. 
It is thus described in the Chicago Herald of 
October 25th: 

(119) 



I20 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" New York's gem banquet hall was the centre 
of the scene. It was hung with wreaths and 
slashes of green oak boughs, splendid symbols of 
the sterling courage and unwavering heart of the 
great character honoured. These same emblems 
were wound in gorgeous lavishness around the 
pillars and up and down the stairway. All the 
parlours were similarly adorned, and every niche 
and corner was bright with wide palms and flowers. 
The red boxes were half hidden in blossoms and 
everywhere the guests in elaborate raiment were 
sheltered by great leaves from the tropics. 

" Under festoons the guests entered, to be wel- 
comed by the receiving party. Mrs. Isabella 
Beecher Hooker stood at the head of this row and 
she looked as if she had just stepped from a colon- 
ial portrait. She wore a quaint cap and flounces 
and furbelows of great dimensions, with sleeves like 
angel's wings. By her side were a dozen others 
dressed as Mary Washington might have been for 
such a function. 

" Down the line were Mrs. Qglesby, the Countess 
di Brazzi, Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, Mrs. A. S. 
Shepard, Mrs. Starkweather, Mrs. Robert L. Henry, 
Mrs. Jonas Hutchinson, Mrs. Ida Preston Gibson, 
Mrs. Florence Ives and Miss Minor." 

" * * * Music filled the building. The half 
hundred musicians of Professor Hecker's Elgin 
band opened with a classic overture and then 



AT THE WORLD S FAIR. I 2 I 

marched the arrivals up the broad stairway in step 
to a Wagner selection. 

•' When the guests had filled the upper parlors, 
the dance programme began with a grand entree. 
This was a charming sight, the long line resembling 
some picture of an ancient knight's banquet proces- 
sion. * * * Hon. Lyman Trumbull and Mrs. 
Trumbull were assigned the places of honor. * * * 
Around and around the hall the line wound, with 
spectators about the edge. Every inch of the boxes 
were occupied, and those who could not get more 
favored points looked in from the halls and adjoin- 
ing rooms. 

" Lunchon was served in the parlors. Upstairs 
the members of the Association waited at dainty 
tables and below, curious robed people from the 
Orient did the honors. In the three west rooms 
native khitmutgars in red fezzes and redder blouses 
poured Indian tea, and across the way the dainty 
Ceylonese chatted over fragrant cups and lear .ed 
their first lesson of Mary Washington from inter- 
ested groups." 

Among the many beauties that graced that 
sumptuous hall, none attracted more attention 
than little Alma Trumbull, a lovely child of 
ten years, looking like a real little Daughter 
of the Revolution in her beautiful pink bro- 
cade ; the court train fell from the shoulders 



122 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

and the sweet, bright face of the child was a 
picture of dehght at the splendid scene and 
her innocent enjoyment of her own pretty 
costume. This fair, sweet flower was doomed 
to fade before blossoming into womanhood. 
Less than two years after that reception, the 
dear little girl was seized with diphtheria and 
passed away in a few hours ; the only child 
of her heart-broken mother and the joy of her 
distinguished father's advanced years. 

Duringr the summer the star of the Heredi- 
tary Life Member was presented to the 
Duchess de Veragua and also to the Infanta 
Eulalia. This graceful tribute to the lady 
guests of the Nation, representing the families 
of Columbus and of Queen Isabella I., was 
suggested by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. At Mrs. 
Pryor's suggestion, the medal was presented 
to the Duchess by Mrs. Mitchell, of Florida. 

The result of the work at the World's Fair 
was to make Illinois the banner State in place 
of Colorado. Louisiana succeeded Vermont 
and South Carolina and held it until Mrs. 
Hearst sent in her contribution from Cali- 
fornia, who held the first place until the Val- 
entine ball at Denver placed Colorado in the 
lead. 



CHAPTER XX. 

HON. FRANK HATTON. 

The perfect enthusiasm and enjoyment of 
the dedication of the Mary Washington 
Monument, was marred by a great sorrow; 
the death on April 30th of Hon. Frank Hat- 
ton, the Editor of the Washington Post, the 
constant, unfaiHne friend and worker for the 
cause. 

We have told how his indignant protest 
against the advertisement for the sale of 
Mary Washington's grave roused Mrs. Het- 
zel to suggest that the monument should be 
built by the women of the United States. 
We have also told how promptly he re- 
sponded, and how he assisted and promoted 
the idea; how he devoted one column of his 
paper for many months to Mary Washing- 
ton, and opened it to subscriptions and con- 
tributions, the Washington Post giving ^200; 
but it is impossible to do full justice to his 
unwearied and unfailing assistance from the 
first suggestion until the completion of the 
(123) 



124 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

monument. Through him Mr. George W. 
Childs sent his donation of five hundred dol- 
lars. He also obtained a donation from Mrs. 
Jeannette M. Thurber, whose name is en- 
rolled among the Hereditary Life Members, 
and the aid he gave through the columns of 
the Post never flagged. 

He had been selected by the other mem- 
bers of the Board of Directors to represent 
the ladies of the National Mary Washington 
Association at the banquet at Fredericks- 
burg. He also assisted in planning the 
arrangements contributing thereby to the 
admirable system which made the Dedication 
so complete and excellent in every respect. 

But the eloquent voice was stilled; the 
handsome face and commanding form were 
missing, and the ceremonies were saddened 
by the memory of the absent friend and the 
sight of the vacant chair. 

At a meeting of the National Mary Wash- 
ington Memorial Association on Saturday, 
May 5th, the following resolutions were 
placed on the files of the society records: 

Whereas, by death Frank Hatton has been re- 
moved from the sphere of his earthly activity and 
usefulness; and 



HON. FRANK HATTON. I 25 

Whereas, the National Mary Washington Mem- 
orial Association recognize with peculiar feelings of 
gratitude the services rendered by him; therefore 
be it 

Resolved, that in the death of Mr. Hatton the 
community has sustained a severe loss; that this 
Association does here record its deep appreciation 
and remberance of the aid, the sympathy and the 
valued encouragement always met with at his hand ; 
and it is hereby ordered that this resolution be 
spread upon the minutes of the board and made 
part of the history which deceased did so much to 
dignify and embellish. 

Amelia C. Waite, President. 
Margaretta Hetzel, Secretary. 

The fame of Frank Hatton belongs to his 
Country. His career as a Cabinet officer as 
a literary man as a patriot and a philanthro- 
pist will live after him. The Mary Washing- 
ton Monument was but one of the many 
noble objects to which he devoted his invalu- 
able time and energies. It was his last great 
work and he lived to see the shaft completed. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE NEW MONUMENT. 



During the spring of 1893 the Incorporators 
of the National Mary Washington Association 
submitted the design of the monument to the 
Trustees; President Cleveland, Chief Justice 
Fuller and Governor McKinney ; who all pro- 
nounced " it artistically and architecturally 
correct, harmonious and pleasing, and in so- 
lidity and simplicity especially appropriate to 
the character and life of the woman it was de- 
igned to honor." Objections had been raised 
in some quarters to the simple form of the 
obelisk, and some of the old citizens of Fred- 
ericksburg were loth to have the old monu- 
ment removed, associated as it was with the 
memories and traditions of their youth; but 
it was impossidle to make a firm and endur- 
inor monument out of the old ruin and the 
first and continued pledge of the collectors to 
the contributors was that a firm and enduring 
monument should be built. 

In the words of Mrs. James Power Smith, 
(126) 



THE NEW MONUMENT. 1 27 

when President of the Fredericksburg As- 
sociation in a letter regarding Mr. Jack's 
offer of a monument; already mentioned in 
Chapter VIII: "Mr. Jack's view is correct, 
that the old monument is composed of too 
many small stones, and that has led largely 
to its ruined condition." 

On October 21st, the corner stone of the 
new monument was laid by the Fredericks- 
burg Mary Washington Association. Mrs. 
Fleming, the President, was unable to be 
present owing to a severe illness, but the 
other officers of the Association were all 
there, with many of the members and a large 
crowd of citizens. None of the National 
officers were present, the President Mrs. 
Waite, saying that she thought it best to 
defer any national celebration until the mon- 
ument was completed. 

The ceremonies were conducted by Rev. W. 
Meade Clark, Rector of St. George's Church, who 
was made custodian of the tin box deposited in a 
cavity cut in the northeast corner of one of the 
massive granite base blocks. He placed each 
article in the box, naming it as he did so. 

The following is a list of the articles : 

"The Story of Mary Washington," by Marion 
Harland. 



128 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" The Fredericksburg Daily Star," of October 
2 1 St, 1893. 

"The Fredericksburg Free Lance," of October 
2 1st, 1893. 

Old copper cents of 1800, and half cents of 1799, 
1800, 1 801 and 1806, and Columbia half dollar 
1807, all donated by F. H. Stonebraker. 

A membership card of the Mary Washington 
Association of Fredericksburg. 

One ribbon badge of the National Mary Wash- 
ington Memorial Association. 

One piece of paper in which Mary Washington's 
will was folded, and scrap of paper on which the 
original will was written. 

One set of Columbia postage stamps, i to 10 
cents. 

One photograph of the old monument. 

" The Home Maker Magazine," containing article 
by Rev. James Power Smith. 

One copy on parchment of the records, Constitu- 
tion and Charter of the Mary Washington Associa- 
tion of Fredericksburg, Va. 

One copy of the Incorporation and By-Laws of 
the National Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
tion, Washington, D. C. 

One copy of contract between the National Mary 
Washington Memorial Association and William J. 
Crawford, the monument builder. 

One copy of letter from George W, Shepherd, 



THE NEW MONUMENT. 1 29 

presenting the lot of land to the Fredericksburg 
Association, dated January 24, 1890, and the letter 
of acceptance from Mrs. James Power Smith, first 
President of the Fredericksburg Association. 

One silver plate from the old monument inscribed 
on one side: " Corner Stone of the Monument over 
the Remains of Washington's mother placed 7th 
May 1833." On the reverse side of this old plate 
the following is inscribed : " This plate removed 
from the corner stone of the old monument October 
7th, 1893, in the presence of Mrs. V. M. Fleming, 
President, and Mrs. J. F. Thompson, Secretary." 

One card of Rev. W. Meade Clark, who placed 
the box in the corner stone. 

Pictures of Mary Washington's house, her dress- 
ing room and sleeping room. 

One new silver plate presented by William J. 
Crawford, contractor, containing the names of the 
officers of both Associations, as follows: 

On one side of the silver plate : 

" The Mary Washington Monument Association 
of Fredericksburg, Va. 

" Mrs. V. M. Fleming, President. 

" Mrs. J. F. Thompson, Secretary. 

"Trustees: Mrs. Charles Wallace, Mrs. T. S. 
Duneway, Mrs. S. W. Carmichael, Mrs. WiUiam 
Bradley, Mrs. E. Dorsey Cole, Miss Irene Colbert, 
Miss Kate Hurkamp, Mrs. Isaac Hunt." 

On the other side of the plate : 

9 



130 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" National Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
tion. 

•' Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President. 

" Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, Secretary. 

" Trustees : 

" Hon.. Grover Cleveland, President United States. 

•' Hon. Melville W.I Fuller, Chief Justice United 
States. 

" Hon. Philip W. McKinney, Governor ot 
Virginia. 

On December 21, 1893, the great shaft 
was placed near the derrick and the work of 
elevating it on the plinth was begun. During 
the 2 2d it was slowly raised from a horizontal 
to a perpendicular position, and at 4 o'clock 
p. m. it was placed on the plinth. 

Mrs. Waite went to Fredericksburg with 
her daughter to witness the raising of the 
shaft, and from the windows of the house 
opposite, the residence of Hon, J. Seymour 
White, she watched every movement of the 
work. After the obelisk was securely poised 
on the plinth, she accepted the monument in 
the name of the National Association. 

The monument, securely boxed, remained 
in its wooden cover over Christmas Day, but 



THE NEW MONUMENT. 131 

It was unboxed on December 26th and thor- 
oughly cleaned ; then it was again boxed up 
to remain until the dedication, which it was 
decided should take place in the month of 
May, the month endeared to the Association 
by many anniversaries, not the least of which 
was the laying of the first corner-stone by 
President Jackson. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



REPORTS AND APPEALS. 



At the annual meeting held on February 
24, 1894, the President presented the follow- 
ing report: 

" We now enter upon the 5th year of active work. 
In previous years we had little to report of results. 
We worked hard and constantly, but it took a long 
time to collect the amount needed before we could 
begin the real work of contracting for and directing 
a monument to the mother of Washington. 

" Now, we come before you prepared to show 
results. Our monument to Mary, the mother of 
Washington, has been put up. The ground around 
is practically graded and enclosed by a fence to 
protect it from vandalism. 

" The monument is fifty feet high and comprises 
a monolith of forty feet, standing on bases and 
plinth ten feet high. The lower base is eleven feet 
square. The whole shaft of fifty feet is of Barre 
granite and the finest workmanship. On the front 
of the plinth are the words: " Mary the Mother of 
Washington," and on the reverse side: " Erected by 
her Country-Women." These inscriptions are beau- 
tifully cut. Mr. Crawford, the designer and builder 
(132) 



REPORTS AND APPEALS. 1 33 

of the monument, has shown a truly patriotic spirit 
in the work, putting not only his best skill but his 
whole heart into it. 

" We have resorted to various methods of raising 
the money ; some have succeeded beyond our ex- 
pectations, others have resulted in disappointment. 
But the monument is now paid for, $11,500. The 
wrought-iron fence around it, twenty feet square and 
six feet high, with stone posts, put up in the most 
substantial manner, is also paid for. This, with the 
cost of grading, keeping a watchman, and the other 
minor expenses, have almost exhausted our funds. 

" We must now put a fence around our five acres 
of park, build a gate-house for the gardener and 
custodian of the grounds, lay out and improve the 
park, and we must have a small endowment fund 
for future expenses. Contributions are daily coming 
in, but in small quantities, owing probably to the 
general depression in business and the needs of the 
unemployed. We are very grateful for all contri- 
butions, but we must emphasize our needs for more 
money to enable us to entirely complete this work 
and hand it over to the trustees this summer. 

[Signed] " Amelia C. Waite." 

The Secretary then presented a concise 
History and an appeal to the Daughters of 
the American Revolution, which was ap- 
proved by the Board and ordered to be 
printed and circulated. 



134 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

She appealed to the Daughters as an 
Honorary Vice-President-General, present at 
the organization, when the motion to aid in 
the completion of the Monument to the 
Mother of Washington, was passed by ac- 
clamation. She alluded to the work already 
done by many Chapters, but realizing the 
growth of the Society of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution, she felt it her 
"official duty" to bring the matter before all 
the Chapters throughout the country, that 
every Daughter may be afforded an oppor- 
tunity to add her mite (though it may be) to 
redeem the noble pledge made at the organ- 
ization of our great Patriotic Society on 
October 1 1, 1890." 

The Concise History contained an epitome 
of what has already been told in these pages, 
closing with the following eloquent appeal to 
the Vice-Presidents: 

" With grateful thanks for all your noble work in 
the past, and trusting that you will be able to still 
effectively aid us in the good cause, I remain, 
" Respectfully yours, 
[Signed] " Margaret Hetzel." 

Mrs. Terhune [Marion Harland], always 



REPORTS AND APPEALS. 1 35 

active and ready to aid the cause, published 
in the Christian Herald, a chapter from her 
"Story of Mary Washington," which, as we 
already know, she had published by Hough- 
ton, Mifflin and Co. for the benefit of the 
National Mary Washington Association. To 
this Chapter she added a foot note suggest- 
ing that every woman and child in the coun- 
try bearing the name of Mary should give 25 
cents to the monument, leading the donation 
with her own name, Mary Virginia Terhune, 
which was followed by Miss Mary F. Waite, 
who also issued an appeal to the Mary's. 
The responses to Mrs. Terhune and Miss 
Waite were numerous, and the Mary Fund 
soon reached a considerable sum. 

Among the contributors to the Mary Fund 
was the Rev. Dr. Howison, author of "The 
Student's History of the United States," and 
also of the standard History of Virginia. 
Enclosing a donation in honor of his mother, 
wife, daughter and sister he paid an eloquent 
tribute to the Mary Washington Association, 
saying that the more he studied the life and 
character of Washington, the more he was 
convinced of his unequalled grandeur and 



136 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

purity, and of his mother's influence in 
moulding that character; adding that the 
work of the Mary Washington Association 
in restoring- the tomb and revivinof the mem- 
ory of this noble Virginia mother should 
merit the thanks of every true American. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



THE DEDICATION. 



The loth of May 1894, an ideal spring -day 
with a cloudless sky, a bright sun tempered 
by a refreshing breeze, was the day that drew 
visitors from all over the country to honor 
the mother of Washington. 

Governor O'Ferrall of Virginia had issued 
an eloquent and touching proclamation order- 
ing the State offices in Richmond closed, the 
flag on the State Capitol placed at half mast 
and requesting all citizens of Virginia, as far 
as possible to unite in reverencing the mem- 
ory of this " Good Virginia Mother." 

The city of Fredericksburg was in gala 
attire. The streets were a mass of decora- 
tion: Americau flags side by side with the 
Virginia State banner: continental buff and 
blue streamed side by side with the red white 
and blue and the red and gold insignia of the 
Ball family which floated before the homes of 
Mary Ball's descendants. 
(137) 



138 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" Flags of some sort floated from every housetop 
and gable window and thousands of little flags 
waved over the doorways of homes, or were carried 
in the hands of the younger portions of the com- 
munity." Often little flags, or the union shield 
with the Virginia coat of arms would frame a 
picture, either of the woman who was that day 
honored or of her immortal son or of Martha his 
wife or of some other Revolutionary character or 
event. 

" One of the most noticeable decorations was an 
old tree standing on a corner of two of the principal 
streets, which looked as if it might have been seared 
by the terrible iron hail of nearly a third of a century 
ago. This ancient tree was wrapped completely 
from its base, far up among its branches and leaves, 
with red and white bunting studded with blue stars. 
The contrast of the bright colors of the bunting 
with the delicate green of the newly opened leaves 
was not only picturesque but beautiful. 

At 10:20 the special train from Washing- 
ton arrived, bringing the President, the Chief 
Justice, members of the Cabinet and other 
invited guests, with the ladies of the National 
Mary Washington Association, the Daughters 
of the x^merican Revolution and the Marine 
Band. 

The Marine Band was the first to alight, 



THE DEDICATION. 139 

and lost no time in saluting the President as 
he drove past with " Hail to the Chief" and 
playing the "Star Spangled Banner" and 
"America" in honor of Mrs. Waite and the 
Board of Lady Managers of the N. M. W. 

M. A. 

At the home of Mary Washington, an old 
time cottage on a side street, a luncheon was 
served by the Fredericksburg Monument As- 
sociation to the National Mary Washington 
Memorial Association. The ladies were re- 
ceived by Mrs. Fleming, President of the Fred- 
ericksburg Mary Washington Association, as- 
sisted by Mrs. Thompson, the Secretary and 
other ladies. The old house had been pur- 
chased and restored by the Association for the 
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and was 
shining with a new coat of Colonial yellow. 
It was furnished completely as in the days of 
Mary Washington, and the quaint furniture 
with the turbaned "Aunties" in attendance 
called one back to the days when the grand 
'*01d Mistress" was yet alive ; while the open 
hearted cordiality of the hostesses assured all 
that the proverbial hospitality of Old Virginia 
was as active as ever. 



140 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

A short time only was allowed to walk 
through the old house, to wander through the 
garden where Lafayette found the " Roman 
Matron " among her flowers, when a summon 
came to attend the dedication ceremonies. 

The procession in honor of a monument to 
a woman, erected by women, was most fit- 
tingly led by ten beautiful young ladies on 
horseback under the leadership of Miss 
Rosalie Bankhead of Stafford County. All 
wore black habits and black cavalry hats, 
adorned with sable plumes and cockades of 
the Continental colors. Splendid riders they 
unflinchingly kept their seats through fire 
and sword as well as martial music, for the 
Marine Band followed with a large Military 
escort, marshalled by General Charles And- 
erson, who wore conspicuously on his breast 
the star of the Hereditary Life Member, first 
worn by him at the White Sulphur Springs 
at the brilliant ball originated and manag^ed 
by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. The first, and 
almost the only man then entitled to wear that 
star, was the Adjudant General of the State 
of Virginia, the marshall of that procession. 

Then followed in carriages the ladies of the 
two Mary Washington Associations : 



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Mrs. Waite, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Hetzel, 
Mrs. Thompson. 

Mrs. Emory, Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
Miss Sallie Emory, Miss Victoria Emory. 

Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune, Mrs. Chris- 
tine Terhune Herrick, Mrs. James Power 
Smith, Miss Hetzel. 

Miss Mary Desha, Miss Janet Richards, 
Miss Ida Beall, (carrying a flag which her 
grandfather Admiral ap Catesby Jones car- 
ried in the war of 1812. 

Then followed the President's carriage 
which had halted for the ladies to take the 
post of honor, immediately behind the mar- 
shal. The President saluted the ladies, hat 
in hand, with an enthusiastic smile as he ac- 
corded them the precedence and fell into line 
behind them. 

Fourteen other carriages followed filled 
with distinguished guests. 

Then followed the Richmond Light Infantry 
Blues, the Alexandria Drum Corps, the Al- 
exandria Light Infantry, the First Virginia 
Regiment, Co. C, the Richmond Howitzers, 
the Knights of Pythias, Sons of Confederate 
Veterans, Confederate Veterans, Fredericks- 



142 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

burg Lodge No. 4, James F. Lowrey, Master, 
and Washington Lodge, Alexandria. William 
F. Smith, Master. 

[General Washington was initiated a 
Mason by the Fredericksburg Lodge and 
was buried by the Washington Lodge of 
Alexandria of which he was a member.] 

The Grand Master of the Grand 1 .odge of 
Virginia, with the Grand Secretary of the 
District of Columbia closed the procession. 

Through the streets of Fredericksburg they 
marched and as they passed the old mansion 
of Betty Washington Lewis, now known as 
Kenmore, the tall, white shaft appeared in 
sight, surrounded by gaily decorated stands 
crowded by still more gaily decorated people. 
In the midst of this bustling crowd it stood, 
pure, solid, simple, like the woman in whose 
honor it was erected, a silent reminder of her 
simple and unobtrusive grandeur of char- 
acter. 

Through a chaos of people of all ages and 
sexes, in multifarious costumes, guarded by 
uniforms of every conceivable color and pat- 
tern, the grand stand was reached. On the 
rostrum were seated President Cleveland and 



THE DEDICATION. 1 43 

Mayor Rowe, the Vice-President and Mrs. 
Stevenson, President General of the Daugh- 
ters of the American Revolution, wearing the 
star of the Mary Washington Association, 
presented to her by the Virginia chapters of 
Albemarle and Roanoke. Near Mrs. Steven- 
son sat Governor and Mrs. O'Ferrall, Sena- 
tor Daniel, the Secretary of State and Mrs. 
Gresham, the Secretary of the Treasury and 
Mrs. Carlisle, the Secretary of War and Mrs. 
Lamont, the Secretary of Agriculture and 
Miss Morton, Secretary Bissell, the Chief 
Justice and Mrs. Fuller, Justice and Mrs. 
Harlan, Mrs, Waite, President of the Na- 
tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
tion, Mrs. V. M. Fleming, President of the 
Fredericksburg Mary Washington Associa- 
tion, Mrs. Hetzel, Secretary of the National 
Association, and Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
Incorporator and Director. 

Next to the rostrum were seats reserved 
for the descendants of Mary Washington, who 
had been specially invited by the National 
Association. They had been summoned from 
the East and from the West ; from old West- 
moreland, King George and Fairfax, from 



144 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, 
California, New Jersey and New York; one 
invitation had been sent to Japan, to Paymas- 
ter Mason Ball, U. S. N. All present wore 
red and gold ribbons in honor of the Ball 
family and their seats were decorated with 
red and gold by the Chairman of Arrange- 
ments, Hon. William A. Little. Among the 
descendants present were Miss Eugenia 
Washington, Col. Thornton Augustus Wash- 
ington and Miss Lee Washington, Mrs. 
Fanny Washington Finch and her niece Mrs. 
Magruder, Miss Eugenia Washington Mon- 
cure, Captain George Washington Ball and 
his dauofhters, Mrs. Hill and the Misses Ball; 
Miss Attaway Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd 
Lewis, Mrs. Bettie McG. Smoot, Mrs. Wal- 
lace, Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith and her daugh- 
ter Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Empie, Mr. Lawrence 
Washington of Mt. Vernon, and his sisters. 
Miss Eliza Seldon Washington and Mrs. 
Eleanor Washington Howard ; Mrs. Perrine, 
of Baltimore, and her sister, Mrs. Mary 
Washington Keyser, Vice-President and 
Hereditary Life Member, wearing the spin- 
ning-wheel of the D. A. R., the badge of the 



THE DEDICATION. 145 

Colonial Dames, the star of the Hereditary 
Life Member, and the red and gold streamers 
that distinguished the descendants of Mary 
Ball. The reunion of the descendants was not 
the least interesting feature of the celebration. 
Miss Susan Carrington Clarke and Mrs. 
Clifton R. Breckenridge, Vice-Presidents for 
Connecticut and Arkansas, sat near Mrs. 
Keyser on the grand stand. One could not 
but regret the absence of Mrs. Pryor and 
many other Vice-Presidents. Among the 
Daughters of the American Revolution pres- 
ent ''were Mrs. Kate Kearney Henry, 
Regent of the District of Columbia, Miss 
Ella Loraine Hersey, Mrs. Fanny Washing- 
ton Reading, Miss Elizabeth Lee Washing- 
ton, Mrs. Major Goodloe, Mrs. Randolph 
Powell, Mrs. Thompson H. Alexander, and 
Mrs. Sylvia Contee Meredith, accompanied by 
her husband, Hon. E. E. Meredith, the pop- 
ular Congressman from Northern Virginia. 

The ceremonies opened with a prayer by 
the Reverend James Power Smith, the author 
of the touching appeal published in the Home 
Maker for 1890. After invoking the Divine 
blessing he said : 

ID 



146 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" Amid these encircling hills of green and these 
smiling fields of plenty, we have gathered on this 
gentle errand to do honor to the American woman 
to whom we owe so much. On this lovely spot, 
consecrated by her solitary devotions, where rests 
the hallowed dust in silent sleep of death, American 
women have erected this monument that our chil- 
dren's children may remember her in grateful love. 
They have wished to make it enduring, that its les- 
sons may never fail among us, and they have made 
it reach aloft that it may point forever to Thee, by 
whom alone all mothers fulfill their missions and 
all sons grow in strength and honor. 

" Where once the rude alarms of war made the 
air to tremble and the sun to hide his face; on this 
battlefield, stained alas, with the blood of brothers, 
we have come from North and South with one 
accord, to fulfill our common duty of respect. 
Peace, blessed peace from Thee, O God of Peace, 
comes with us; and surely 'peace hath its victories 
no less renowned than war.' 

" We thank Thee for the sweet name of mother; 
for the memory of this noble American mother ; for 
her great gift, the son she bore and bred, and all 
the lessons she taught him of truth and purity, and 
the manly virtues of self control and unselfish devo- 
tion to right and to his country in which she 
trained him. 

" May our people learn more and more to honor 



THE DEDICATION. 147 

the name of mother ; and every home be the shrine 
of all things pure and lovely, and the nursery of 
sons and daughters to defend and adorn a great 
and happy land." 

After this sublime, prayer, the Mayor of 
Fredericksburg rose, and in a very able ad- 
dress welcomed on behalf of the City of 
Fredericksburg, the President, Governor and 
other distinguished guests. He gave a brief 
account of the first monument and the lay- 
ing of the corner-stone by President Andrew 
Jackson ; he paid an eloquent tribute to the 
lamented Frank Hatton and the ladies of the 
Mary Washington Association, including 
" the noble women in various sections, some 
of whom have graced this occasion by their 
presence to-day." 

The President of the United States was 
then welcomed by Governor O'Ferrall on be- 
half of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He 
alluded to the memorial in these eloquent 
words : 

" To perpetuate the memory of her who gave 
birth to the leader of the American armies in the 
mighty struggle; fashioned his genius, moulded his 
character, formed his soul for good, and inspired 



148 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

him for the work of Hberating his people from the 
fetters of tyranny and establishing on this Western 
Continent an indestructible Union of indestructible 
States, ' a government which is the cynosure of all 
nations' eyes, the wonder of the hemispheres, the 
marvel of the civiiized world.' 

" Here under this bright sky and in these clear 
sunbeams the first monument is to be dedicated in 
remembrance of this noble American matron ; 
builded not, however, by this Government with all 
its might and wealth and resources, but by a 
glorious band of women who determined to rescue 
the memory of the mother of Washington from the 
corroding hand of time and carve her name in 
letters deep in marble, where generations down, 
down the ages to come can read with kindling eyes 
and swelling bosoms." 

Then, after alluding to Washington as a 
Cromwell without his ambition, a Scylla with- 
out his crimes, to the world its brio-htest ex- 
ample, and to mankind its ideal philanthro- 
pist, he alluded to President Cleveland as 
" a statesman without guile, a patriot with- 
out selfishness ;" he welcomed the Justices of 
the Supreme Court as successors of John 
Marshall, with a heart}^ greeting to the mem- 
bers of the Cabinet, the Senators and repre- 



THE DEDICATION. 1 49 

sentatives, concluding with these impressive 
words : 

" Let our blessings ever follow the glorious 
daughters of this bonded Union, by whose appoint- 
ment we are here, who, with feet that never wearied, 
with a resolution that never faltered, with spirits 
that never drooped and hearts that never grew faint, 
pursued the noble work to which they had conse- 
crated themselves until this pillar was crowned with 
its apex, the last letter carved, the trowel and chisel 
laid to rest and the whole structure dedicated for 
all time to the memory of Mary, the mother of 
Washington, and committed to the keeping of Vir- 
ginia, her birthland, her homeland, her graveland, 
who with her watchful eye will guard it with sacred 
care and by her strong arm protect it from the 
Vandal touch." 

The President introduced by Mayor Rowe, 
followed with an impressive address delivered 
in a strong, mellow, penetrating voice that 
seemed capable of filling the entire Monu- 
ment Park without any effort on the part of 
the speaker. He said : 

" Goruernor CFerralL Mr. Mayor and Fellow 

Citizens : 

" I speak for those who are to-day greeted as the 
official guests of Virginia and Fredericksburg, when 



150 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

I return hearty thanks for the hearty welcome that 
has been extended to us in behalf of both State and 
City. Our appreciation of the warmth of your re- 
ception is not diminished by the thought that in 
the light of the highest meaning belonging to this 
occasion, there are no guests here. We have 
assembled on equal terms to worship at a sacred 
National shrine. * * * 

"The man who said he cared not who made the 
people's laws if he could write their songs, might 
have said with more truth that he could gauge the 
strength and honor of a people and their fitness for 
self government if he knew the depth and steadfast- 
ness of their love for their mothers. I believe that 
he who thinks it manly to outgrow his care and 
devotion to his mother, is, more that he who has no 
music in himself, fit for treason, stratagem and 
spoils, and should not be trusted. Let us recall 
to day as conclusive proof of close relation between 
American greatness and a lasting love and reverence 
for our mothers, the proud declaration of George 
Washington, ' All I am I owe to my mother,' and 
let us not forget that when his glory was greatest 
and when the plaudits of his countrymen were 
loudest, he valued more than these the blessing and 
approval of his aged mother. 

" While these exercises cannot fail to inspire us 
anew with reverence for American motherhood, we 
will remember that we are here to do honor to the 



THE DEDICATION. I5I 

woman who gave to our Nation its greatest and 
best citizen, and that we have the privilege of parti- 
cipating in the dedication of a monument erected 
by the women of our land in loving and enduring 
testimony to the virtues of the mother of Washing- 
ton. Let us be proud to-day that the nobility of 
this woman exacted from a distinguished foreigner 
the admission : ' If such are the matrons of America, 
she may well boast of illustrious sons,' and that 
Lafayette, who had fought with her son for 
American independence, declared after he had re- 
ceived her blessing: ' I have seen the only Roman 
matron living at this day.' 

"Remembering these things, let us leave this 
place with our love of country strengthened, with 
a higher value of American citizenship, and with a 
prayer to God that our people may hold fast to the 
sentiment that grows out of the love and reverence 
for American motherhood." 

After the President's address the monu- 
ment was dedicated by the Grand Master of 
the Masons of Virginia, Mann Page, and the 
Grand Lodge of Virginia, assisted by Freder- 
icksburg Lodge No. 4, where Washington 
was initiated; and Washington Lodge of 
Alexandria, of which he was the first Master, 
a member until his death, and under whose 
management his funeral was conducted. 



152 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

When the dedication ceremonies were 
completed, President Cleveland arose, saying 
that it was one of the most interesting inci- 
dents of the occasion to present a lineal de- 
scendant of " Mary, the mother of Washing- 
ton," introduced Mr. Lawrence Washington, 
who responded on behalf of the Washington 
family. His speech was an interesting sketch 
of the parentage and home of Mary Ball, of 
her married life, her widowhood and the 
character of her children, concluding with 
these words: 

" A life like hers spent in the performance of 
those domestic duties which demand no public 
recognition or applause, and of which no account 
is immediately written, can only be judged by its 
results. Tested by this standard it needs no 
apologies, and her requiem might well close with 
the motto of her husband's family, ' Excitus acta 
probat! " 

The President then introduced the orator 
of the day in the following felicitous words: 

" On a day like this, of which Virginia 
should feel proud, she is peculiarly fortunate 
in having within her borders one who is bet- 
ter equipped than any man in the whole 



THE DEDICATION. I 53 

country for performing the duties of the oc- 
casion. She could not find one more fit than 
the distinguished son she has chosen. I in- 
troduce Senator John Daniel." 

Senator Daniel's address on this occasion 
has been pronounced the ablest oratorical 
effort of his life ; thai" he was the Senator who 
so long and valiantly strove to have the work 
done by the Government, adds zest to his 
remarks : 

"Mr. President of the United States; Ladies 
OF THE Mary Washington Monument Asso- 
ciation, My Countrymen : 

" George Washington was the noblest figure that 
ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life. We 
are gathered to-day around his mother's grave. 
' All that I am,' said he, ' I owe to my mother.' 
All that we are as a nation we owe to him. His 
debt is ours. * * * Beholding this monument, 
we rejoice that this debt is acknowledged, and 
realize that no limitation of time can bar rendition 
of justice to a noble fame. 

" Our gratitude goes forth to our countrywomen 
who have so worthily achieved this work. Men 
attempted it and left it half accomplished. The 
State and the Federal governments alike contem- 
plated, discussed and postponed it. Our noble 
women undertook it and it was done. 



154 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" We thank you, Madam, you Mrs. President, 
and your companions of the Mary Washington 
Memorial Association. Your success is your re- 
ward, and you will be henceforth blended in our 
veneration with her whose name is carved upon 
this sacred stone. It was fitting indeed that your 
pious hands should rear the first monument on 
earth erected by women to a woman, and fitting 
too that it should bear the name of Mary, the 
mother of Washington." 

After a tribute to the American home and 
to its effects on good government and a just 
nation, he said : 

" You have reared this beautiful obelisk to one 
who was the light of the dwelling in a plain, rural, 
colonial home. Her history hovers around it. 
She nursed a hero at her breast. At the knee she 
trained to the love and fear of God and to the 
kingly virtues, honour, truth and valour, the lion of 
the tribe that gave to America liberty and inde- 
pendence. This is her title to renown. It is 
enough. ******* 

" She was the good angel of the hearthstone — 
the special providence of tender hearts and helpless 
hands, content to bear her burden in the sequestered 
vale of life, her thoughts unperverted by false ambi- 
tion, and all unlooking for the great reward that 
crowned her love and toil, 



THE DEDICATION. I 55 

" But for the light that streamed from the deeds 
of him she bore, we doubtless would have never 
heard the name of Mary Washington, and the grass 
that grew upon this grave had not been disturbed 
by curious footsteps nor reverential hands ; but it 
does not follow that she shines only in the reflection 
of her offspring's fame. Her virtues were not 
created, they were only discovered by the mar- 
vellous career of her illustrious son. This memorial 
might indeed be due to her because of who she was, 
but it is far more due because of what she was. It 
is in her own right, and as the type of her sex, her 
people and her race, that she deserves this tribute 
stone. 

"There were ten thousand Mary Washingtons 
among the mothers of the Revolution, and honour- 
ing her we honour the motherhood of heroic days 
and heroic men, It was in his character, all suffi- 
cient in every emergency, that was displayed the 
overtowering greatness of George Washington and 
it is not doubted that this character was toned and 
shaped by his mother's hand. The principles which 
he applied to a Nation were those simple and 
elementary truths which she first imprinted upon 
his mind in the discipline of home." * * 

Senator Daniel reviewed the life of Mary 
Washington from her youth, when she was 
"The Belle of the Northern Neck," "The 



156 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Rose of Epping Forest," to her old age when 
she was venerated as the "Roman Matron," 
or beloved as "Old Madam ;" of her appear- 
ance at the Peace Ball, her reception of Lafay- 
ette in her garden, of her last meeting with 
her great son, when he came to receive her 
blessing before accepting the highest gift of a 
grateful nation. He told of her death, of the 
generous gift of Mr. Burrows; of the laying 
of the corner stone on the 7th of May, 1833, 
of the misfortune of the unfinished monument 
as battle-scarred and weather-stained it had 
finally become so dilapidated as to be incap- 
able of reconstruction. He concluded with 
these stirring words : 

" Once again the May time breaks with its sun- 
shine, its verdure and its blossoms over the land 
whose hills and plains were shaken and whose 
houses were shattered by the thunders of war; but 
no more do their long lines come gleaming out to 
the deadly fray; no more is heard ' the noise of the 
captains and the shouting,' no more are seen the 
garments rolled in blood. Yet history repeats 
itself, and a mighty host is again marshaled upon 
these plains. Manhood and womanhood and child- 
hood are here; the people have come from far and 
wide ; the old Masonic Lodge of which Washing- 



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157 



ton was a member and the volunteer soldiery are 
gathered here, and our noble chief Magistrate and 
Commander in Chief, who fills the seat of Washing- 
ton and Jackson, is here to lift up the pure ideals 
of the Republic and imbibe and impress the lessons 
of this consecrated day. ' I prophesy,' said Thomas 
Carlyle, ' that the world will once more become a 
sincere, a believing world, with many heroes in it — 
a heroic world. It will then be a victorious world 
—never 'till then.' Fireside lessons and the 
mother's love must make it so — sincere, believing, 
heroic, victorious. In scenes like this are tokens 
of the fulfillment of the prophet's vision. Patriot- 
ism kneeling by the good woman's grave invokes 
its inspirations and prays God's blessing on the land 
of Washington." 

Immediately after Senator Daniel's oration 
and the applause that followed, two beautiful 
baskets of flowers were presented to Mrs. 
Waite and Mrs. Hetzel by Miss Maude Lee 
Davldge, of the National Board of Directors, 
and Miss Victoria Emory, daughter of the 
First Vice President. They were the kind 
and graceful gifts of the sister of Senator 
Daniel. 

Governor O'Ferrall, at the request of the 
ladies of the Fredericksburg Mary Washing- 



158 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

ton Monument Association, read a set of en- 
grossed resolutions, which were then pre- 
sented to Mrs, Waite as President of the 
National Society. 

After a preamble, stating the gift of Mr. 
Shepherd, the conditional deed to the Na- 
tional Association and the erection of the 
monument just dedicated, it was 

''Resolved, By the Mary Washington Monument 
Association of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that th% 
most heartfelt thanks of the Association are due 
and are hereby tendered to the National Mary 
Washington Memorial Association for the able and 
effective way in which the monument on their part 
has been pushed to a successful completion, for 
their earnest and untiring efforts, for their zeal and 
devotion to this sacred cause, and for their patriot- 
ism so well expressed in this enduring shaft of 
granite. 

" And be it further Resolved, That this Associa- 
tion do also tender their thanks to those friends 
who, more especially in the beginning ot this under- 
taking, came to their aid with untiring interest and 
unflagging zeal, prominent among whom stand the 
names of Dr. James P. Smith, the late lamented 
Frank Hatton, and Mrs. M. V. Terhune." 

This concluded the ceremonies. The ladies 



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of the National Board enjoyed a rest in the 
cool sweet home of Mrs. Fleming. President 
Cleveland, after holding a reception on the 
Monument Park, made a visit to the pretty- 
cottage opposite, the home of Hon. J. Sey- 
mour White of the Fredericksburg Free 
Lance, where he was entertained by Mrs. 
White and the charming sister of Mrs. White, 
Mrs. Judge Goolrick, the First Vice-President 
for Virginia of the National Association. Her 
early services to the cause are recorded in 
these pages, especially her admirable appeal 
published on October 31st, 1889. 

The President, Cabinet, Justices, Senator 
Daniel and Governor O'Ferrall and staff 
were then escorted to the old Mary Wash- 
ington house where they partook of a lunch- 
eon. The President, delighted, wandered 
through the old rooms, admiring the quaint, 
colonial furniture and recalling the past. He 
then asked if it were too late to invite the de- 
scendants of Mary Washington to meet him 
in the old home of their ancestress, for he 
would be very happy to see them there. 
Then the wearers of the red and gold, living 
m Fredericksburg, who were entertaining 



l60 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

their kinsfolk from a distance were summoned 
from their luncheons, and hosts and guests, 
without regard to age or sex, repaired to the 
old home, where the great-great-grandson of 
old Aaron Cleveland, Congregational parson, 
patriotic poet and Revolutionary officer, had 
the satisfaction of grasping the hands and en- 
joying the conversation of the nearest living 
relatives of his first and greatest predecessor 
in the home of his beloved and honored 
mother. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

THE BANQUET. 

At four o'clock, after the dedication, a ban- 
quet was given in the opera house by the 
Masons of Fredericksburg, under the auspices 
of Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4. This was 
pronounced the grandest banquet that Fred- 
erieksburg had ever known. The hall was 
handsomely decorated with flags, festoons, 
and streamers of bunting, stars and stripes 
innumerable, the Virginia banner, the Conti- 
nental colors, buff and blue varied by flowers, 
ferns and palms, which, combined with the 
dresses of the lady guests, the regalia of the 
Masons, the floral ornamentation of the 
tables, and the cut glass and silverware pro- 
duced a dazzling effect. 

The Marine Band discoursed sweet music, 
and when the familiar strains of " Hail to the 
Chief" announced the arrival of the Executive 
he was greeted with loud cheers by all 
present, to whom he was presented by Judge 
Sener, of Fredericksburg, as "a guest of the 
II (161) 



1 62 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

lodge in which George Washington was made 
a Mason ; in the spot where Andrew Jackson 
had laid the cornerstone of a monument to 
Mary Washington, and which now welcomed 
the illustrious successor of Washington and 
Jackson, President Grover Cleveland." 

The President replied in a few felicitous 
remarks, saying that he was embarrassed by 
being numbered with his predecessors, for he 
was but an unworthy successor of Washing- 
ton and Jackson; he also regretted that he 
was not a Mason ; perhaps it was not his 
fault, but he was sure it was his misfortune ; 
but, he added, that he belonged to a fraternity 
of which George Washington and Andrew 
Jackson were both prominent members, whose 
temple was not as old as Solomon's, for it 
was an American institution, a fraternity, 
whose fruits would always be before the 
world. " Would you know its name ? It is 
the brotherhood of free and accepted Ameri- 
can citizens." 

The President and party were hardly 
seated, the cheering of the crowd and the 
music of the band not yet hushed when the 
Governor with Mrs. O'Ferrall, Congressman 



THE BANQUET. I 63 

and Mrs. E. E. Meredith and thirteen beau- 
tiful girls from Richmond, representing the 
thirteen original States, arrived and were 
presented by Judge Sener. The Governor 
responded to the greetings with a few amus- 
ing words and took his seat amid the laughter 
and plaudits of his hearers. 

The Governor was followed by Mrs. Waite. 
When she was introduced by Judge Sener 
she smilingly bowed her acknowledgements 
to the rapturous applause which greeted her, 
equalling in enthusiasm that accorded the 
President. She was accompanied by Mrs. 
Fleming and Mrs. Thompson, President and 
Secretary of the Fredericksburg Association. 
Mrs. Hetzel, the Secretary of the National 
Association was unable to be present, being 
exhausted by the excitement and fatigue of 
the dedication ceremonies, but her place was 
admirably filled by the Assistant Secretary, 
Miss Mary F. Waite. Miss Maude Lee 
Davidge, Incorporator, was also of the party 
with Miss Victoria Emory, Miss Elsie McEl- 
roy, of Washington, and Miss Hetzel, of Fair- 
fax County, Va. 

The first toast to the "Memory of Mary 



1 64 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Washington" was responded to by George 
Alfred Townsend in an attempt to travesty 
that memory by a so-called poem, containing 
more truth than poetry, but very little of 
either. How one longed for the woman's 
poem of 60 years previous ! 

The toast: "George Washington the 
Master Workman of the Age," was re- 
sponded to by Vice-President Stevenson in 
an admirable address. As a son of Illinois 
he extolled the generosity of Virginia in ced- 
ing to the General Government the great 
Northwest, the conquest of George Rogers 
Clarke. He paid a splendid tribute to George 
Washington as a soldier, a statesman, a 
Mason. "He was the recognized master 
workman. His most eloquent eulogist has 
well said: 'Virginia gave Washington to 
America and America gave him to the world 
and the ages.' " 

At the laying of the corner-stone of the 
National Capitol, one hundred years ago, 
Washington officiated as Grand Master of 
Freemasons as well as in his great office of 
President of the United States. No crafts- 
man can forget that upon that historic occa- 



THE BANQUET. 165 

sion Washington wore the sash and apron 
that had been wrought by the hands of the 
wife of the beloved Lafayette. * * * 

"Amid discouragement and danger let us not for- 
get that with Washington there was an abiding 
faith in the capacity of his countrymen for self- 
government. * * * The century just closing has 
not dimmed the glory of the achievements of this 
illustrious man. * * * His name and fame are the 
precious heritage of all people and all times, his 
last words, the shibboleth of all parties and sec- 
tions." 

Mr. Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court, 
U. S. A., responded to the toast: "Our dis- 
tinguished guests; we extend to them a 
hearty welcome." 

Justice Harlan, after saying that he was a 
son of Kentucky and therefore a grandson of 
Virginia, thanked the people of Fredericks- 
burg, most cordially on behalf of the Presi- 
dent and his Cabinet, the Vice-President, the 
Chief Justice and the Senators and Represen- 
tatives, for the opportunity of being present 
on such an interesting occasion and for the 
generous hospitality extended to all. "All 
the world," he said, "knows what Virginia 



1 66 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

hospitality means." He paid a graceful trib- 
ute to George Mason's Bill of Rights, and 
Virginia Constitution of 1776, and to the 
heroes and statesmen of the Revolutionary 
period. "But," he concluded, "there is an- 
other circumstance connected with this occa- 
sion which is of peculiar interest to the pres- 
ent Chief Justice and myself as members of 
the Supreme Court of the United States. It 
is, that the erection of this beautiful monu- 
ment is principally due to the untiring, unself- 
ish, patient labor of a noble woman, the 
widow of an honored successor of Chief Jus- 
tice Marshall. I allude, as you know, to Mrs. 
Amelia C. Waite, the President of the Na- 
tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
tion. She deserves and will receive the 
thanks of all, in every country, who revere 
the memory of the mother of Washington 
and her illustrious son." 

The last toast: "To the National Mary 
Washington Memorial Association," was re- 
sponded to by Hon. Blair Lee, son of Mrs. 
Elizabeth Blair Lee, Second Vice-President. 
He said: 

" The National Mary Washington Memorial As- 



THE BANQUET. I 67 

sociation was started in May, 1889, by Mrs. Hetzel. 
It was about the same time that Mrs. Terhune 
I Marion Harland] commenced the same work in 
New York, and a similar movement was made in 
the Old South Church, Boston. The reason for so 
general an uprising was the advertisement of the 
sale at pubhc auction of the ground on which the 
unfinished mo mment to Mary Washington stood. 

" About this time came the news of the fearful 
disaster at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, by which, and 
the coming of the summer season, all efforts were 
postponed until the autumn, when the work com- 
menced with vigor. In the meantime the Mary 
Washington Society of Fredericksburg secured the 
land and deeded it to the National Society ' on con- 
dition of their erecting a suitable monument upon 
the ground.' These conditions appear now to be 
fulfilled. 

"To Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President, and Mrs. 
Margaret Hetzel, Secretary, of the lady managers, 
is principally due the success of the undertaking. 

" Mrs. Waite brought to this difficult task quali- 
ties in a woman such as we are familiar with in the 
character of Washington — dignity, patience, indus- 
try and good sense. In directing the energy and 
reconciling the differences of her associates and in 
arousing public interest, she has experienced and 
overcome many difficulties not unlike some that 
met and harrassed General Washington, and she 



1 68 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

may not only look back upon her labors as success- 
ful but as showing forth what they were least meant 
to exhibit — the exalted nature of a true woman. 

" Mrs. Hetzel suggested the work, and as Secre- 
tary of the Board of Lady Managers has been inde- 
fatigable, writing hundreds, I might say thousands 
of letters to all parts of the United States, endeavor- 
ing to enlist the patriotism of the women who could 
appreciate the character of Washington's mother." 

Thus concisely and clearly did Mr. Lee 
recapitulate what has already become famil- 
iar to the reader. He then alluded to the 
successful work of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, 
reading a beautiful letter, regretting her ina- 
bility to be present. After another deserved 
tribute to Mrs. Terhune and the Vice-Presi- 
dents of the States, he spoke of the recent 
loss that the Association had sustained : 

" One vacancy has occurred in the Board of 
Directors since its organization through the death 
of Hon. Frank Hatton. Passing along Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue on the evening of the day he died, 
by a flag at half mast on the beautiful building he 
was prominent in erecting, I knew of his departure. 
The moment and its suggestions were impressive. 
A bright star was sinking in the clear west. There 
came one of those lulls which sometimes take place 



THE BANQUET. 1 69 

in the traffic of a thoroughfare. It seemed as 
though the spirit of the dead was taking its last 
look at the scene of life's labor and success. This 
Association has lost in him a Director whose posi- 
tion on the press, whose liberal sympathies and in- 
tellectual gifts made him a vigorous helper." 

This was the last speech. The ladies at 
the National Association were saddened at 
thus recalling the memory of their sympathiz- 
ing friend and active helper. Mr. Lee had 
filled his vacant chair and responded for him. 
The appeal of the Reverend James Power 
Smith, issued in Fredericksburg on Novem- 
ber 20, 1889, said: "A general sentiment is 
rising, stimulated by the meeting in the Old 
South Meeting House, Boston, and in the 
action of the Washington Post." This appeal 
of the Fredericksburg Association made this 
first tribute to Mr. Hatton, and it was most 
fitting that the last words spoken at the ded- 
ication ceremonies should also be a tribute to 
his memory." 

A contemporary sheet said : "It was a day 
of patriotic oratory — a day when the minds of 
the speakers and their hearers were turned 
back to Revolutionary men and deeds as in 



170 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT^ 

'the dear old unestranged days,' as Mr. 
Lowell would say." 

Too much cannot be said of the unbounded 
hospitality and perfect management shown by 
the citizens of Fredericksburg on this impres- 
sive occasion. The Fredericksburg Monu- 
ment Association under the admirable lead- 
ership of Mrs. Fleming, the Masonic Lodge, 
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Lodge, and the 
various committees of invitation, arrange- 
ment, transportation, etc., all provided in the 
most complete manner for the comfort and 
enjoyment of their thousand guests. And it 
also must not be forgotten here that the do- 
nation of the Fredericksburg- Monument As- 
sociation to the monument was two thousand 
dollars, including the lot. 

The President and party, Mr. and Miss 
Waite, and other distinguished guests, left on 
the six o'clock train for Washington, but sev- 
eral remained, including the Governor and 
his staff, and a beautiful ball was given in his 
honor. The Opera House was transformed 
from a banqueting hall into a ball room, 
where the showy uniforms of the Governor 
and his staff and the beautiful ball dresses of 



THE BANQUET. 17^ 

the more beautiful Virginia girls made a truly 
brilliant scene. 

"Thus ended," said the Fredericksburg 
Star, "the biggest day that Fredericksburg 
has ever seen or ever will see. Not a disa- 
greeable incident occurred as far as we could 
hear to mar the pleasure of the occasion." 



CHAPTER XXV. 



DE PROFUNDIS. 



The closing words of Mr. Blair Lee at the 
banquet at Fredericksburg were: "The work 
of this organization is but half done. The 
monument is indeed before you, but a fund 
must be provided for its preservation ; a 
keeper, a lodge and suitable enclosures must 
be secured. While your patriotic emotions 
are still glowing under the eloquence of Sen- 
ator Daniel it is hoped that you will each and 
all resolve that the good work shall stand." 

On February 22, 1895, the annual meeting 
was held at the residence of Chief Justice 
Fuller, the host presiding. All the original 
incorporators were present, also Mr. Lee and 
Mr. Fendall of the Board of Directors. 

Many Hereditary Life Members were pres- 
ent. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and Mrs. Daniel 
Manning, of New York; Mrs. Squire, of 
Washington State; Mrs. Cheney, of New 
Hampshire; Miss Clarke, of Connecticut; 
Mrs. Putnam, of New Jersey; Mrs. Hulbert, 
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DE PROFUNDIS. 1 73 

Mrs. Perin, Mrs. Thomas, Miss Annie Laws 
and Miss Mary Torrence Harrison, of Ohio ; 
Mrs. MacCartney, Mrs. Hunsicker and Miss 
Rittenhouse, of Pennsylvania, and Miss Anne 
Randolph Ball, of the District of Columbia. 
Mrs. Newport, the Vice-President for Minne- 
sota, was represented by her daughter, Miss 
May Newport and Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith, 
of Virginia, by her daughter, Mrs. Lelia B. 
Cocke. 

The Secretary after presenting the minutes 
of the last meeting reported that the list of 
Hereditary Life Members had increased dur- 
ing the year from 168 to 187. The Treas- 
urer's report was then called for and a balance 
of ^2,600 reported. 

Mrs. Waite then submitted her report, 
her last annual report. Though the events 
have already been described elsewhere, it is 
well to hear of them through her : 

" Since our last annual meeting we have some 
progress to report, but much less than we had 
expected. 

" At that time we could say that the monument 
to ' Mary, the Mother of Washington,' was com- 
pleted, but not dedicated. 



174 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" That ceremony took place on the lOth of May, 
1894, in the presence of a distinguished gathering. 
The President of the United States and many of his 
Cabinet, the Vice-President and Chief Justice of the 
United States and some of the Associate Justices, 
the Governor of Virginia and his staff, with a mih- 
tary escort, and many others of National reputation. 
The exercises were most satisfactory. The speeches 
of the President, the Governor of Virginia, and the 
Mayor of Fredericksburg were all excellent, and 
the oration of Senator Daniel magnificent. 

" The monument standing up against the blue 
sky in its purity and gracefulness elicited universal 
approbation. So impressive was its appearance 
that the Secretary of State could find no finer 
model for the birthplace of George Washington at 
Wakefield than one of similar design but five inches 
taller.' * * * 

" We have tried to impress upon our friends that 
only half of our work is done. We must build a 
custodian's house, improve the four acres of ground 
around the Monument and secure an Endowment 
Fund sufficient to take care of the place. Such are 
the conditions of our deed from the ' Mary Wash- 
ington Monument Association of Fredericks- 
burg.' * * * 

" Our Hereditary Life Membership has been the 
most profitable source of income during the past 
year. Our Secretary's report will show the number 



DE PROFUNDIS. I 75 

of new members as well as the total. The Life 
Membership is twenty-five dollars, with which we 
give a silver star. If a member prefers a gold star 
it is furnished by paying the extra cost of the metal. 
An amendment to the by-laws providing for these 
life memberships gives the members the right to 
vote at our several meetings on and after February 
22nd, 1897, and it is expected that thereafter the 
officers of the Association will be chosen from these 
members. * * * 

" I would suggest the appointment of a Record- 
ing Secretary. Our present Secretary has more to 
do than her strength is equal to in her correspond- 
ence. This she has managed most admirably, but 
the duties of both positions are too mush for her. 

"Amelia C. Waite, 
"President of Ladies' Board of National Mary 

Washington Association." 

According- to this recommendation of the 

o 

President, Miss Mary F, Waite was elected 
Recording Secretary and the other members 
of the Board of Managers were re-elected. 

It was resolved at a Board meeting a few 
days later to proceed at once with the erec- 
tion of a suitable stone house on the Monu- 
ment Park for the Custodian. The Secre- 
tary's report for the year showed that she had 



176 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

deposited with the Treasurer ^2000 before 
the 2 2d of February. Since the annual meet- 
ing she had received $256.57 from Mrs. Lan- 
sing, Vice-President for New York State; 
$25 from the Gaspee Chapter, of Providence, 
R. I., and $95 from Mrs. Roger A, Pryor, 
making in all $3276.57. In addition to this 
amount $3000 had been set aside for the En- 
dowment Fund. 

On May 24, 1895, Mrs. Hetzel received a 
touching and eloquent letter from Governor 
Dillingham, of Vermont^ telling her the sad 
news of the death of Mrs. Dillingham, one 
month previous, adding: 

" You know enough of her responsive nature to 
understand that she was no ordinary woman, and 
you will pardon me if I add that in all that goes to 
make life grand she was richly endowed." 

When one remembers with what energy 
and enthusiasm she responded to the first 
appeal of the National Association; how 
promptly she sent in her large donation, col- 
lected mostly from dollar contributors, and 
which must have been the result of miraculous 
courage and industry, one cannot but feel 
strongly the truth of the tribute here paid her 



DE PROFUNDIS. I 77 

by him who knew and loved her best. Her 
name will always be endeared to the Mary 
Washington Association as the first Vice- 
President to respond to the appeal of the 
Secretary with a contribution that made hers 
the first banner state, 

Mrs. Dillingham was the fourth Vice-Pres- 
ident to be called away. Mrs. Faulkner, of 
West Virginia, who had started her work 
with great energy lived but a few months 
after sendino- in her first donation. Mrs. 
Cockrell, of Missouri, fell a victim to a sudden 
attack of pneumonia, early in 1893, and Mrs. 
Dundas Lippincott, of Philadelphia, who had 
worked with untiring zeal in that city, was, 
shortly after the dedication in 1894, summer- 
ing at Bar Harbor, having left Philadelphia 
during a heated term. Coming too suddenly 
into the bracing air of Mount Desert she was 
seized with a sudden illness, and expired in a 
few days. 

Miss Susan Carrington Clarke, the Vice- 
President for Connecticut, had gone to At- 
lanta, to attend the meeting of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, held in that 
city during their Exposition. She had just 
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178 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

arrived when she was attacked with what 
seemed to be a severe cold, but which proved 
to be a mortal disease. 

The Secretary of the N. M. W. M. A. had 
received only a few days previously an order, 
sent by Miss Clarke, through Mrs. Waite, for 
two gold medals. She sent her reply to 
the officers of the Daughters of the Amer- 
can Revolution, knowinof that Miss Clarke 
was on her way to the Exposition. Her let- 
ter was returned unopened by the Curator of 
the D. A. R. office, with the sad news of Miss 
Clarke's sudden death at Atlanta on Octo- 
ber 20, 1895. She had been a very active 
worker. As State Regent of Connecticut 
she had brought the Mary Washington cause 
before her Chapters, and she had many plans 
for increasing the fund. 

On October 20th, the day of Miss Clarke's 
death, Mrs. Hetzel received a letter from 
Washington, telling of the sudden illness of 
Mrs. Waite. Returning from a summer at 
the old home in Lyme, Connecticut, she 
had reached Washington, and was on her 
way from the train to her carriage, when she 
was seized with vertigo, followed by heart 



DE PROFUNDIS. I 79 

failure. She rallied for awhile, and lay for 
four months very ill, tended by her devoted 
daughter and her many dear friends. Her 
interest in the Mary Washington Association 
seemed to be the one subject that could divert 
her mind from her physical sufferings; so 
great was her sense of duty and responsi- 
bility. She was able to know that the main 
building of the Custodian's cottage, which 
she had made her special work for that year, 
was finished ; to approve the bills presented, 
and to counsel the Board of Directors to 
keep intact the $3,000 set aside for the En- 
dowment Fund. Such was the interest she 
showed that her friends on the Board hoped 
for recovery; hoped soon again to see her 
sweet face, to hear her sage advice and have 
her once more among them as a true and 
earnest worker; but it was in vain. On Feb- 
ruary 2 1 St, at II o'clock p. m., her pure 
spirit took flight. 

This loss to the Society cannot be esti- 
mated. It seemed a personal bereavement 
to every member: 

" Like a summer- dried fountain when our need was 
the sorest." 



l8o BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Her death was felt keenly in her social 
life, in her church and in her many charities ; 
especially among the ladies of the Epiphany 
Church Home; but I doubt if it was any 
where more deplored than by this Society, to 
which she had devoted the last years of her 
life. 

The next day, the 2 2d day of February, 
was the day of the regular annual meeting. 
As It had been impossible to give the neces- 
sary notice on account of the illness of the 
President, an informal meeting of Vice-Presi- 
dents and Hereditary Life Members was held 
at the Washington Club by order of Mrs. 
Elizabeth Blair Lee, 2nd Vice-President. 
The sad news of the death of our beloved 
President was discussed and the Secretary 
was empowered to draw up resolutions of 
condolence. The Secretary, prostrated by 
grief, age, and ill health, was unable to work 
for some time, nor were any of the directors 
ready to meet, and it was not until April 8th 
that the Board met and elected Miss Waite 
President to succeed her mother. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

THE HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 

In May, 1896, the Secretary, by order of 
the President, Miss Waite, issued an Appeal 
to the Vice-Presidents and Hereditary Life 
Members, begging them to send in their 
reports and hsts of contributions before 
February 2 2d, 1897, to be deposited in the 
Custodian's House; also urging these ladies 
to interest not only the Daughters and 
Dames, but all patriotic women in the United 
States, to complete the work they had so 
nobly begun. 

Many interesting reports were sent in 
response by State Vice-Presidents. From 
Mrs. Lansing of Albany, Mrs. Mary Wash- 
ington Keyser of Maryland, Mrs. Roger A. 
Pryor Vice-President at Large, and from 
Mrs. Sarah E. Fairman the faithful and un- 
tiring Chairman of the New York City 
Chapter, D. A. R. Admirable work was 
also done by Mrs. McCartney of Pennsylva- 
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1 82 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

nia, and Mrs. Mather of New Jersey, though 
they did not send any formal reports. 

Among the responses to the Appeal was a 
letter from Mrs. W. M. Wilcox of Middle- 
town, Connecticut, showing so much ability 
and such an intelligent interest in the subject, 
that the Secretary wrote asking her to accept 
the office of Vice-President for Connecticut 
made vacant by the death of her friend and 
townswoman Miss Susan Carrington Clarke. 
Mrs. Wilcox accepted and commenced her 
work on the ist of June. She issued Ap- 
peals to all the Chapters of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution in her State, with 
the approval of Mrs. Kinney the State 
Reofent. So effective was her work that she 
enlisted 32 Hereditary Life Members in six 
months and also collected a large sum from 
other sources. 

On February 27th, 1897, the annual meet- 
ing was held at the house of Miss Davidge. 
It was the first official meeting of the Hered- 
itary Life Members, according to the by-law 
that said they were privileged to vote at the 
Annual meeting on, and after February 2 2d, 
1897. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 83 

Miss Mary F. Waite, President in the 
Chair, presented her report, reading an ac- 
count of the disbursement of moneys during 
the past year, and setting forth the needs of 
the Society for a larger Endowment Fund 
than the ^3000 invested. 

The Secretary's report was then read giv- 
ing an account of the receipts during the year 
and the reports of the Vice-Presidents, mak- 
ing especial mention of the work done by 
Mrs. Wilcox, of Connecticut, and Mrs. Miller, 
of Massachusetts. She also reported the 
monument built and paid for, the Custodian's 
House or Monument Lodge also built and 
paid for and Mrs. Frances B. Goolrick, a 
Fredericksburg lady of distinguished family 
and of great intelligence and character ap- 
pointed Custodian. Mrs. Goolrick will surely 
be recognized by the readers of this little 
volume on account of her earnest work in the 
early days of the Society; she having sent 
out the first appeal in October, 1 889, suggest- 
ing the same plan of organization outlined by 
Mrs. Waite, the previous June and put in 
operation during the summer by Mrs. Hetzel. 

Miss Waite then said that it still remained 



184 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

to lay out and enclose the park. She also 
read a letter from the Custodian asking- for 
some necessary work for the Lodge. These 
additions were approved by all present. 

Miss Hetzel then asked that some recep- 
tacle might be placed in the Board Room of 
the Lodpfe to receive the records of member- 
ship and the reports of the contributors. Mrs. 
Wilcox responded that the Connecticut ladies 
would furnish the Board room. 

Mrs. Stoddard, of New York, proposed 
that the number of Hereditary Life Members 
should be extended on account of the needs 
of the Society. Ihis was opposed by Mrs. 
Hall, of Pennsylvania, and other ladies on the 
ground that it would cheapen the membership. 

The President ruled that that motion, re- 
quiring an amendment to a by-law, could only 
be voted upon after a two-weeks' notice had 
been sent to each member. The votes of 
absentees could be sent by letter over each 
signature. 

Mrs. Oglesby, of Louisiana, offered a res- 
olution in lieu of the previous motion: "That 
each Hereditary Life Member pledge herself 
to contribute $20 within the year." This was 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 85 

objected to by several Vice-Presidents and 
original members, as the Hereditary Life- 
Membership insured the members against any 
further tax, and they had so pledged them- 
selves. 

The President announced, with the deepest 
regret, that the Treasurer, Mr. E. F. Riggs 
had been forced to decline re-election, as he 
was about to leave the country, adding : 

" It is impossible to over-estimate the value of 
his services to the Association from the very first 
inception of the enterprise until now. 

" I recommend that the Board put on record 
their appreciation of all he has done and the loss 
they sustain at his resignation." 

Miss Waite then resigned as President of 
the Society, and Mrs. Mary Washington 
Keyser was elected her successor. 

Miss Hetzel reported the resignation of 
Mrs. Emory from the Board of Directors on 
account of failing health. 

In addition to Mrs. Keyser, three new 
members were then elected on the Board of 
Directors : Mrs. Wilcox, of Connecticut ; 
Mrs. Alger, of Michigan ; and Mrs. Fleming, 
of Virginia. 



1 86 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Mr. Blair Lee was elected Treasurer, to 
succeed E. Francis Riggs. 

Mrs. Hetzel resigned as Secretary and 
Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel was elected her 
successor. 

The meeting then adjourned until March 
15th. 

Resolutions asking that the Hereditary 
Life Members decide on a limit of extension 
were then issued by the Secretary and mailed 
to all Hereditary Life Members. At the ad- 
journed meeting on March 15th the votes 
were counted. Fifty-eight had been received ; 
of these, three were negatives, opposed to 
any extension ; eight were limited to less than 
a year; the remainder, the large majority, 
fixed no limit, but left it to the discretion of 
the Board, or "until the necessary amount 
should be raised." 

The members present at this adjourned 
meetinor, after careful consideration and con- 
sultation, decided to limit the Hereditary Life 
Memberships to 600, feeling that that would 
have been the amount raised had it not been 
for the financial depression at that time. The 
by-law was therefore amended: "No medals 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 87 

will be given out after the members number 
six hundred." 

Of the four members of the Board elected 
on February 27th, Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. 
Fleming accepted; Mrs. Alger did not re- 
spond; Mrs. Keyser, after careful considera- 
tion, found herself obliged to decline. 

At a called meetino- of the Board of Di- 
rectors on April 12th the following officers 
were elected: 

Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, President, to suc- 
ceed Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, re- 
signed. 

Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard, ist 
Vice-President, to succeed Mrs. Matilda W. 
Emory, resigned. 

Mrs. Emily W. Fleming, 2d Vice-President, 
to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 

In February, 1898, the day before the 
Annual Meeting of the Mary Washington 
Association, the sad news was received of 
the death of their legal adviser, Mr. Reginald 
Fendall. Major Robert W. Hunter was 
elected his successor, at the next meeting of 
the Board of Directors. 

At the Annual Meeting in 1899, the 



1 88 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

vacancy on the Board caused by the resigna- 
tion of Mr. Riggs, and the election of Mr. 
Blair Lee to the office of Treasurer was 
brought up. Mr. Shepherd, of Fredericks- 
burg, who donated the land around the 
monument, on which the Lodge now stands 
was unanimously elected to this office. Mr. 
Shepherd said that he could not accept the 
office, and at the meeting in 1901 Professor 
Marcus Benjamin was unanimously elected 
to fill the vacancy. 

For many years Mrs. Pryor was the only 
Vice-President at Large, but it v/as found ne- 
cessary to appoint more ladies for that work. 
Miss Desha resigned the Vice-Presidency of 
Kentucky because she was no longer a resi- 
dent of that, her native State. Mrs. Eleanor 
Holmes Lindsay then became Vice-President 
from Kentucky, and Miss Desha continued 
her work as Vice-President at Large. 

Mrs. Edward Roby of Chicago, who did 
such signal service at the World's Fair, was 
asked to work with Mrs. Trumbull as Vice- 
President for Illinois, as Mrs. Trumbull re- 
turned to Connecticut when she became a 
widow; but Mrs. Roby, unwilling to interfere 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 89 

in Mrs. Trumbull's work, preferred to be 
Vice-President at Large, and she has enlisted 
many valuable members from all over the 
country. 

Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard of Plattsburg, 
N. Y., also worked with such success in the 
East and the West that she was appointed a 
Vice-President at Large, and she has gathered 
in members from many places. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 

The Articles of Incorporation of the Na- 
tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
tion state that "the Association was organized 
for the purpose of erecting a suitable monu- 
ment to Mary, the mother of George Wash- 
ington and maintaining and preserving the 
same in perpetuity." 

With this object the Hereditary Life Mem- 
berships were instituted: as a sure means of 
securing a perpetual Guard of Honor for the 
tomb of Mary Washington," in the eloquent 
language of the originator, Mrs. Pryor. 

Representative women all over the country 
have been enlisted to carry out the objects of 
the Society. That sacred duty is to descend 
to daughter, granddaughter or to any heir 
designated by the member. A list of the 
Hereditary Life Members will be appended 
to this volume. It will be seen that very few 
States are unrepresented and we hope before 
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the list is closed to have every State and Ter- 
ritory on record. 

One very interesting feature of the Asso- 
ciation has been the presentations of the 
Hereditary Life Memberships. The first to 
receive that honor was, most appropriately, 
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. At the grand ball at 
the White Sulphur Springs, which she sug- 
gested and projected, the membership was 
presented by the managers of the ball, and 
the beautiful star of the Mary Washington 
Association first appeared, worn by the 
woman who first proposed the Hereditary 
Life Memberships, Medals were also pre- 
sented to Mrs. Annie Camm, Miss Mary 
Custis Lee and General Charles Anderson. 

During the summer of 1893, two medals 
were presented to the honored guests of the 
Nation: The Duchess de Verasfua and the 
Infanta Eulalia. The star was presented to 
the Duchess de Veragua by Mrs. Martha 
Mitchell, of Florida, through Mrs. Pryor ; 
that of the Infanta Eulalia was conferred by 
Mrs. Pryor herself. Beautiful letters of ac- 
knowledgement were received from these 
ladies and the Duchesse de Veragua called 



192 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

on Mrs. Pryor, to express her gratification, 
accompanied by the Duke and all her suite. 

The Mount Vernon Chapter of Virginia 
was the first to present a medal to its Regent : 
Miss Eliza Selden Washington, daughter of 
John Augustine Washington, of Mount Ver- 
non. This is one of the fourteen descend- 
ants of Mary Washington among the Hered- 
itary Life Members. The Washington family 
have been amonof the most earnest workers 
for the cause; one especially, Mrs. Mary 
Washington Keyser of Baltimore. It is 
hardly necessary to again tell of all she has 
done to honor the memory of her great an- 
cestress. The membership of Miss Eugenia 
Washington was a testimonial from two 
relatives and a devoted friend. 

The Irondequoit Chapter of Rochester 
presented a medal to its Regent, Mrs. Caro- 
line Crafts Little. Mrs. Little oriorinated the 
idea that all the Chapters of New York State 
should present a membership to their State 
Regent. Miss Mary Isabella Forsyth was 
the first State Regent to receive this testi- 
monial ; the star has since been conferred on 
her two successors, Mrs. Belden and Mrs. 
Verplanck. 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 93 

In April, 1894, just before the Dedication 
of the Monument, a star was presented to 
Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, President- 
General of the Dauo^hters of the American 
Revolution, by two Virginia Chapters — the 
Albemarle Chapter of Charlottesville, and 
the Margaret Lynn Lewis of Roanoke. It 
was the beautiful thought of the Regents of 
these two Chapters — Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith 
and her daughter. Mrs. Lelia B. Cocke, 
descendants of Mary Washington. 

When the time arrived for the unveiling of 
the monument a medal was presented to 
Mrs. J. Burrows (^reen, only surviving child 
of Silas Burrows, the donor of the first monu- 
ment. The medal was the gift of Mrs. 
Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. John Townshend and 
Mrs. Charles Senff of New York, and was 
purchased on the day and hour that the 
Monument was dedicated. The gift was 
accompanied with many exquisite flowers 
and was received by Mrs. Greene with thanks 
and tears. 

The New York City Chapter which has 
done such admirable work under its efficient 
and untiring Chairman, Mrs. James Fairman, 
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194 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

celebrated the 6th of January, the anniversary 
of the wedding of George Washington and 
Martha Custis, by presenting the Mary 
Washington star to their popular and gifted 
Regent, Mrs. Donald McLean. 
In the words of the Chronicle : 

" A gold medal with Hereditary Life Member- 
ship in the National Mary Washington Memorial 
Association, was presented to Mrs. Donald McLean, 
Regent of New York City Chapter Daughters of 
American Revolution, at Sherry's on the sixth of 
January, 1896, at the celebration of Washington's 
Wedding Day. The officers of the New York City 
Chapter were present. 

" The Chairman of the Mary Washington Fund 
for the New York City Chapter, Mrs. James Fair- 
man, represented the Chapter that bestowed the 
gift and made the presentation address. 

" The Medal was accepted by the Regent, who at 
the social which followed expressed her gratitude 
and appreciation of the tribute. 

"Among those present were Mrs. Adlai Steven- 
son [then President General of the Daughter of the 
American Revolution], who was the guest of honor. 
General Horace Porter and Charles Dudley 
Warner." 

A few days after Mrs. McLean received 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 95 

the medal, she sent the following felicitous 
acknowledgment : 

"My Dear Mrs. Fairman: 

"This beautiful Star [of the Mary Washington 
Association] engraved in letters unfading in the 
gold and upon the tablets of my heart, and keeping 
fresh and green the date which will ever hereafter 
be precious to me personally, as well as interesting 
historically, will thro'out my life typify to me the 
radiance of tender friendship. 

" To my children and their followers, this badge 
of membership in so honorable a society will be 
more and more valuable as generation succeeds 
generation. When I contemplate all that the digni- 
fied and beautiful symbol signifies — historically and 
to me — I find no adequate words for the exceeding 
gratitude that stirs within me. Pray believe in its 
depth and sincerity my dear Mrs. Fairman, and also 
that I am but more appreciative because your hands 
presented me with the exquisite insignia — your 
hands which have worked so faithfully and with so 
fine results for the great monument. Your hands 
which have never been outstretched to me save in 
loyal greeting and leal support. 

" Whatever work I may have performed for our 
beloved Chapter is rewarded thousandfold by the 
most happy surprise on that Wedding Day, Janu- 
ary 6th, 1896. 



196 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

" The dainty satin case of my badge [how proud 
I feel] is bride-like in its purity. Once more with 
all my heart, I thank you and your sister donors. 
I am in the past, in the present year, and in all to 
come, 

" Your constant friend and devoted Regent, 

" Emily N. Ritchie McLean. 
" yanuary 6, 1896." 

" In 1895, ^^ ^"^^ the desire of some ot the 
oldest members of the D. A. R. Society in 
New York, to show their appreciation and 
recog-nition of the enthusiastic work and the 
untiring energy of Mrs. J. Heron Crosman. 
Accordingly, thirty-five ladies united to pur- 
chase a star of the N. M. W. M. A. and to 
bestow it upon Mrs. Crosman, making her a 
Life Member of the National Society. The 
star was purchased in Washington on Febru- 
ary 22, 1896, during the session of the Con- 
tinental Congress. It was formally presented 
to Mrs. Crosman early in March, in the par- 
lors of the Buckingham Hotel, New York 
City, by Miss Vanderpoel, who, in beautiful 
words of loving commendation, paid a glow- 
ing tribute to Mrs. Crosman's devoted ser- 
vices to the National Society of the D. A. R. 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 97 

In accepting the emblem, Mrs. Crosman 
dwelt upon the patriotic work and objects of 
the Society, and paid an exquisite tribute, in 
words of rare eloquence, to the memory of 
Mary, the mother of Washington. 

"In thanking her friends, she said: 'Long 
time ago, hundreds of years before our Revo- 
lutionary heroes were born, an Oriental poet, 
in the land of the palm and the date tree, 
said: "Blessed is the man who can say: 'I 
have one true friend.'" How blessed am I 
to-day, to look in the faces of thirty-five loyal 
friends and true, who, with generous hands, 
have held out to me their golden star, as a 
token of their love and regard.' 

"A few days after this presentation, there 
was sent to the Committee, to be presented 
to Mrs. Crosman, a beautiful bar from which 
to hang this star; especially made to order 
by Tiffany, blending in blue and white enamel, 
the D. A. R. colors, and studded with sap- 
phires, an ornament of intrinsic value, as 
well as of significance, in memory of one of 
the first Life Members of the National So- 
ciety, to be worn with the star as part of the 
presentation gift." 



198 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

The Mahwenawasigh Chapter of Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., conferred a membership on 
their Regent, Mrs, Edward Storrs Atwater, 
in 1897, ^^^ i^ 1900 a medal was presented 
by the Chapter to Miss Myra Hubbard 
Avery. 

The Saranac Chapter has presented 
medals to three successive Regents, Mrs. 
Stoddard, Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Gamble. 

On the 19th of January, 1895, the third 
anniversary of the Mary Washington Colo- 
nial Chapter of New York City, a medal was 
presented by the Chapter to its beloved 
Regent, Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel. 
The presentation was made by the Rev. 
Charles Russell Treat, Chaplain of the Chap- 
ter. It was received with much appreciation 
by Miss Vanderpoel, and will be, she said, 
ever considered by her as one of her most 
valued treasures. On every Memorial Day 
the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter dec- 
orates the grave of her Chapter heroine with 
fresh flowers. 

The efficient and popular State Regent of 
Connecticut, Mrs Kinney, received the gift 
of a star from all the Chapters of her State. 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 99 

This was the work of the Vice-President, 
Mrs. Wilcox. The Mary Clapp Wooster 
Chapter of New Haven, conferred the mem- 
bership on Mrs. DeHa T. Audubon Tyler, 
and the Wadsworth Chapter, of which Mrs. 
Wilcox is Regent, presented a medal to Mrs. 
Mary Hubbard Bunce. 

Mrs. Joseph McWilliams, St. Paul, Minn., 
had a medal presented by the Nathan Hale 
Chapter in 1898. The same year, the Min- 
neapolis Chapter conferred a membership on 
Mrs. Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, the 
pioneer of that city. 

Born on the route, at Fort Crawford, on 
the Ouisconsin River, the child of an officer 
of the regiment ordered to establish a post 
in that wild region, she was two months old 
when she was brought to her future home, 
where shortly after old Fort Snelling was 
built. She has written a record of her 
"three-score years and ten," called the "Life 
Long Memories of Fort Snelling," an invalu- 
able chronicle of the life and growth of " The 
Old Northwest." 

Nor was the New Northwest silent during 
the winter of 1898. While the aged pioneer 



200 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

was honored in Minnesota, a message from 
the children was sent across the continent. 
In San Francisco the Valentine Holt Society 
of the Children of the American Revolution 
sent to the Mary Washington Association on 
the 2 2d of February, a gift of ^40, of which 
^35 were devoted to making a hereditary 
Life Member of their President. Mrs. S. 
Isabelle Hubbard, one of the best workers for 
the Mary Washington cause on the Pacific 
Coast. 

The Caesar Rodney Chapter of Wilming- 
ton, Delaware, presented a star to its Regent. 
Miss Sophie Waples. 

Two Chapters in Massachusetts have con- 
ferred memberships on their Regents. The 
John Adams Chapter, on Miss Floretta Vin- 
ing; the Fort Massachusetts on Mrs. Mary 
F. Richmond. The Massachusetts Daughters 
have also presented medals to three State 
Regents : Mrs. Fuller, Miss Daggett and 
Miss Winslow ; Mrs. Fuller's was the gift of 
the State delegation at the Continental Con- 
gress ; Mrs. Daggett's was presented through 
the Vice-President. Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, and 
that of Miss Winslow by many Chapter Re- 
gents, through Miss Vining. 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS, 20I 

In 1897, Mrs. S. V. White, of Brooklyn, 
became a Hereditary Life Member. Mrs. 
White is well known for patriotic and philan- 
thropic work, especially in connection with 
the memorial to the Prison Ship Martyrs. 
She was one of the early contributors and 
promoters of the Mary Washington cause, 
and when she joined the Society, she at once 
went to work with the sing-le-heartedness for 
which she is well known. She enlisted many 
friends, among others, Mrs. Emily Warren 
Roebling, of New Jersey. She had a star 
presented to Mrs. Daniel T. Wilson, of 
Brooklyn, for long service on the committee 
of Home and Country in the Chiropean Club 
of Brooklyn. 

In 1898, she, as Chairman of the Martyrs 
Monument Committee, D. A. R., offered a 
prize to that member of the Society of Chil- 
dren of American Revolution who should 
during the year raise the largest contribution 
for the Monument to the Martyrs of the 
Prison Ships of the American Revolution. 
The prize, a Mary Washington medal, was 
awarded in 1899, to John Christy Giles, Jr.. 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



202 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

On the same day, February 22, 1899, a 
medal was presented to Mrs. Daniel Lothrop 
by the New York officers of the Children of 
the American Revolution, in recognition of 
her patriotic work in founding- the Society, 
and her long and faithful service for the 
organization. 

Two days after this presentation to the be- 
loved President of the children, on February 
24, 1899, the star was presented to Mrs. 
McKinley by the Ohio delegation to the Con- 
tinental Congress of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. The presentation took 
place in the Blue Room of the White House 
and was a mos^ g-raceful and eleoant cere- 
mony. Mrs. McKinley, enthroned in a 
spreading arm chair, exquisitely gowned in 
light silk trimmed with rare lace and chiffon, 
looked as fair and pure as a white lily. The 
Ohio ladies led by Mrs. Rathbone, were first 
received by the President and Mrs. McKinley ; 
many being old and dear friends ; they were 
followed by the ladies of the Mary Washing- 
ton Association led by Mrs. Eleanor Wash- 
ington Howard and Miss Susan Riviere 
Hetzel. 



PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS, 203 

Mrs. Rathbone made a short and eloquent 
address presenting the medal and reading the 
inscription: " Ida Saxton McKinley." When 
she handed it to Mrs. McKinley she admired 
in greatly and asked Mrs. Rathbone to pin it 
on to her breast. She was then welcomed 
into the Mary Washington Association by the 
members present, the descendants of Mary 
Washington, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs Howard, 
Mrs. Finch and Miss Eugenia Washington 
being specially presented ; and the wife of the 
Executive became a member of the Society 
organized in honor of the mother of his first 
and greatest predecessor. 

Mrs. McKinley's enjoyment of that presen- 
tation and the President's gratification and 
delight in her enjoyment will always be a 
tender memory to all present. The knightly 
devotion and watchful care that has so en- 
deared our lamented President to this Nation, 
and has left us such a shining example of con- 
jugal love was never more touchingly shown 
than on that occasion. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

THE MONUMENT LODGE. 

During the memorable summer of 1898 
very little could be done towards completing 
the Endowment Fund of the Mary Washing- 
ton Association. On account of the war 
with Spain no circulars or appeals were sent 
out by the Secretary. Nothing could be 
thought of or asked for but aid for the 
wounded and comforts for the dying. The 
work of the patriotic women of this land, 
daughters, dames and many others, singly 
and collectively, is one of the most glorious 
pages in the history of American woman- 
hood. The work of the War Relief Com- 
mittee of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, as told in the second volume of 
the Smithsonian Report, shows the work of 
that societ}', and sister societies were no less 
energetic and useful. 

Two visits were made to the monument 
grounds that year. One in May, appointed 
by the President, Mrs. Lee, just before war 
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was declared, consisted of Mrs. Eleanor 
Washington Howard and Miss Desha. 
The Lodge, a small stone cottage Colonial 
design, was examined, a granite coping to 
enclose the grounds was decided upon, the 
grading of the road was provided for and 
other necessary work on the grounds and 
lodge was recommended. 

On November 9th, after the war, the visit- 
ing committee, consisting of Mrs. Eleanor 
Washington Howard, Miss Desha, Mrs. 
Brockett, and Miss Hetzel again went to 
Fredericksburg and inspected the monument 
and grounds. Mrs. Howard, the last daugh- 
ter of the Washingtons born at Mount Ver- 
non, brought willows from the grave of her 
renowned great-uncle, and planted them 
around the grave of his mother, her honored 
ancestress. 

Another child of Mary Washington was 
remembered on that day. A new Chapter of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution 
was started, which bears the name of Betty 
Washington Eewis. Mrs. Page, the State 
Regent of Virginia, came from Norfolk and 
met her colleagues, Mrs. Brockett, Vice-Pres- 



206 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

ident General, in charge of organization ; 
of Chapters ; Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel, 
Registrar General; and Miss Mary Desha, 
Founder. A delightful meeting was held at 
the hotel, and many members were enlisted. 
Mrs. William Key Howard was appointed 
Regent. She is the present owner of Betty 
Lewis' beautiful mansion, and a few weeks' 
later the Chapter organized in that historic 
home. Greatly to the regret of all, Mrs. 
Howard was obliged to resign soon after, and 
Mrs. Goolrick, the Custodian of the Monu- 
ment, was elected her successor. 

The handsome Colonial furniture collected 
by Mrs. Wilcox for the Board Room — now 
called the Connecticut Room — was greatly 
admired by the committee: so much so that 
a few weeks later, at the State Conference of 
the Virginia Daughters, a resolution was 
passed to furnish a Virginia Room. Unfor- 
tunately, the ladies of the Mary Washington 
Association were not able to accept this kind 
offer, greatly to their regret. The Lodge is 
very small and the Connecticut Room is the 
only room that belongs exclusively to the As- 
sociation ; the rest of the house is the home 



THE MONUMENT LODGE. 207 

of the Custodian. Mrs. Schultz, of New Jer- 
sey, an earnest friend and member expressed 
a wish that New Jersey should have a room, 
and I am sure that would be the wish of many 
states, and it is a great pity that there are no 
more rooms to furnish at the Monument 
Lodge, as at Mount Vernon, but the house is 
too small as it was only built for a lodge. 

In May. 1899, the Hereditary Life Mem- 
bers in response to a resolution passed at the 
annual meeting, were all summoned to Fred- 
ericksburg to meet around the tomb of Mary 
Washington. 

The ladies who responded to this invitation 
were met by a deputation of gendemen at the 
Fredericksburg station, where carriages were 
in waiting to take them to the monument. 
At the Lodge they were enthusiastically wel- 
comed by Mrs. Goolrick, the Custodian, and 
Mrs. Fleming, Vice-President of the National 
Association. They were then presented to 
Mrs, Charles Wallace, the President of the 
Fredericksburg Monument Association, who, 
assisted by a bevy of charming women and 
beautiful girls with a fair sprinkling of the 
male sex entertained the company. 



208 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

After viewing and admiring the beautiful 
monument, they were invited to a bountiful 
luncheon at the Lodge, given by the Freder- 
icksburg ladies. After luncheon all gathered 
on Oratory Rock, that spot so sacred to Mary 
Washington's hours of prayer. There an 
address of welcome was delivered by Hon. 
William A. Little, followed by a very interest- 
ing paper written and read by Mrs. Louise 
Levering Weber, of Philadelphia, on the work 
of the women of the United States and what 
they had accomplished in the Mount Vernon 
Association and the Mary Washington Asso- 
ciation. 

The wall enclosing the park, the latest work 
of the Association was then examined and 
approved. It is a very low wall, hardly more 
than a coping, but it is built of the same beau- 
tiful Virginia granite as the Lodge, and is in 
perfect keeping with the house and the monu- 
ment. Mrs. Schultz, of New Jersey, planted 
a fine hydrangea near the Lodge. The 
Lodge itself was also much admired, espec- 
ially the Connecticut Room with its treasures 
of antique furniture and bric-a-brac. 

After a drive to the National Cemetery 



THE MONUMENT LODGE. 2O9 

[the battle-field, Marye's Heights] the day 
concluded with a tea at Mary Washington's 
house to which the ladies were invited by the 
Fredericksburg branch of the A. P. V. A.: the 
Association for the Preservation of Virginia 
Antiquities. In 1890, this Association bought 
the old home and had it put in perfect order. 

Among the Hereditary Life Members in the 
party were two great- great-granddaughters 
of Mary Washington : Mrs. Fanny Washing- 
ton Finch and Miss Eugenia Washington. 
Fredericksburg was Miss Washington's for- 
mer home and at every turn she was greeted 
by old friends. At Mary Washington's house 
these ladies were constantly reminded of 
some anecdote or tradition learned from par- 
ents or grandparents. With them we wan- 
dered through the cottage and the old garden, 
where little is left of " Old Madam's" careful 
tending except the high box hedges, which 
must have stood there when she welcomed 
Lafayette in her gardening outfit. 

The tea, served by the youngest and pret- 
tiest young girls of the A. P. V. A, was fol- 
lowed by songs, recitations and an impromptu 
dance in which old and young joined and 
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2IO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

made the evening pass away all too soon. 
When the ominous news of the approach of 
"train time" came, the rich, sweet voice of 
Mrs. McKnight Moses led the chorus of the 
"Star Spangled Banner" and "Auld Lang 
Syne," and with kind farewells the ladies left 
for Washington, hoping to be able to go an- 
other day and bring with them more mem- 
bers to see the Monument, enjoy the many 
reminiscences of that historic town and the 
never failing hospitality of Old Virginia. 

In September, 1899, the Secretary made 
another visit to Fredericksburg, She spent 
three days at the Monument Lodge, with her 
kind hostess, Mrs. Goolrick. While there 
she deposited in the old Colonial secretary 
placed by Mrs. Wilcox in the Connecticut 
Room, the reports of the early Vice-Presi- 
dents and the lists of all contributors who had 
registered their names, Mrs, Fleming, the 
Second Vice-President, was present when 
these records of the Monument Builders were 
placed in the desk. 

This had long been a cherished wish of 
Miss Hetzel. At the annual meeting of 1897 
she had asked that a depository might be fur- 



THE MONUMENT LODGE. 211 

nished for these early records. Anything to 
hold papers ; a desk, a cabinet or even a 
chest, for it had been a pledge to the builders 
of the Monument that their names should be 
enrolled at the Monument Lodge. 

The Fredericksburg Mary Washington 
Monument Association, after giving the 
ground, donated to them by Mr. Shepherd, 
to the National Association, and having done 
so large a part towards the building of the 
Monument, resolved to erect another memor- 
ial to Mary Washington; and the Mary 
Washington Hospital is now an important in- 
stitution in Fredericksburg. And thus is the 
memory of our greatest heroine kept green ; 
not only by an enduring obelisk from the 
women of her country, but by a living charity 
from her townswomen in her old home. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



On the morning of December 25, 1899, in 
the early morning, 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Margaret 
Hetzel passed away, in the 85th year of her 
age. 

She had striven faithfully during the last 
two years of her life to keep up her work for 
the Mary Washington Association. Though 
broken in health and spirit by the loss of her 
beloved friend and co-worker, Mrs. Waite, in 
1896, she continued the duties of Secretary 
for another year. After she resigned in 1897 
she continued in charge of the Hereditary 
Life Memberships until she could no longer 
do the work. Repeated attacks of grippe at 
her advaneed age finally undermined her 
constitution and impaired her vigorous intel- 
lect. Still, so continued was her interest in 
the cause that she insisted on assisting in 
sending the notices for the annual meeting 
in 1899, and she placed the stamps on all the 
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IN MEMORIAM. 213 

360 envelopes, and would allow nobody to 
help her. 

From the moment that she first conceived 
the idea, until her pen dropped from her poor 
aged hand her enthusiasm never faltered. 
Only one who had lived with her and saw 
her daily could realize how she devoted her 
days and nights, in winter or summer, from 
year to year, to that object. The work she 
often said was " a true labor of love" and she 
at first objected to accepting the allowance for 
extra expenses on that ground. She asked 
one very clever woman to accept the office, 
but she answered, " I will if you will provide 
me with two clerks." The ladies of the 
Board of Audit knew Mrs. Hetzel well, and 
they knew that no one else could do the work 
as Mrs. Hetzel did it, and that is why they 
proposed the regular allowance, as she hav- 
ing served several years without one, was 
unable to do so longer. Mrs. Hetzel pos- 
sessed the pen of a ready writer and a beau- 
tifal flowing hand. I feel sure that corre- 
spondents all over the country must remem- 
ber and admire her letters. A resolution 
from the Independenee Hall Chapter D. 



2 14 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

A. R. pays tribute to "her ardent patriotism 
and magnetic enthusiasm, always inspiring 
others." The results of her work, the amount 
collected in that short time — a time, too, of 
great financial depression — testify to her 
energy and eloquence, and show that the 
extra expenses allowed for were well ex- 
pended. In the words of an old and dear 
friend: "She bore the burden and heat of 
the day, and lived to see her object accom- 
plished." " The world is poorer that she has 
left it." 

Mrs. Hetzel originated the idea that the 
monument should be built by the women of 
this country, but Mrs. Waite directed the 
plan of organization and the methods that 
brought it so soon to a successful conclusion. 
While Mrs. Hetzel was busily issuing appeals 
and collecting, Mrs. Waite was no less busily 
disbursing and doing untold work as chair- 
man of the Building Committee. She jour- 
neyed in many States in search of the best 
design for a monument, and when that mon- 
ument was completed she went to Freder- 
icksburg to see it raised on its base. Before 
the Lodge was built she attended to every 



IN MEMORIAM. 215 

item of the work on the grounds, and the 
subject seemed never absent from her 
thoughts until the last. 

It is a striking fact that these two women 
who had so devoted the closing years of their 
lives to the memory of Mary Washington 
should have left this world on days closely 
associated with the life of her great son. Mrs. 
Waite left us at 1 1 p. m., February 21st, the 
eve of his birth, and Mrs. Hetzel fell asleep 
on December 15th, 1899, while the echoes of 
the Centennial of Washington's death still 
lingered on the ear and in the heart. 

" It is good to meet such natures, there are 
none too many in this world." 

A few days later, Mrs. Hetzel was laid to 
rest in Arlington, covered with floral tributes 
from many friends, of which none was more 
touchingly appropriate than a laurel wreath 
from the Army and Navy Chapter of which 
she was a member. 

Among the testimonials received by the 
writer during the sad weeks that followed 
was the following from the National Board of 
Management of the Daughters of the Amer- 
ican Revolution : 



2t6 building of a monument. 

" Entered into rest on the morning of December 
15th, 1899, Mrs. Margaret Phoebe J. Hetzel, of 
Washington, District of Columbia, an organizer and 
charter member of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution and its first Honorary Vice-President 
General. Mrs. Hetzel was also the originator and 
Secretary of the Mary Washington Memorial As- 
sociation. 

" The Board of Management of the National So- 
ciety of the Daughers of the American Revolution 
hereby express their heartfelt sympathy with Miss 
Su.san Riviere Hetzel, Registrar General, and with 
her sister, Mrs. Margaret Riviere Hetzel Pendleton, 
in the loss of their gifted mother, who passed away 
in the fullness of years, ripened for the heavenly 
garner. 

" Mary Jane Seymour, 

" Historian General. 
" Alice Pickett Akers, 
" Recording Secretary General." 

The Fredericksburg Free Lance published 
the following editorial: 

"The death of Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, which oc- 
curred in Washington last Saturday, has been 
heard with regret by our people. Mrs. Hetzel was 
the pioneer and principal projector of the movement 
which culminated in the erection of the monument 
here to the memory of Mary, the mother of Wash- 



IN MEMORIAM. 217 

ington. * * * Mrs. Hetzel was patriotic, zealous 
and untiring in her work, and the beautiful shaft 
that marks the spot where sleeps the mother of the 
father of his country, the wondrous work of the 
women of this land, is a monument to her energy 
and activity. She was of distinguished ancestry, of 
amiable, gentle character, kind in her dealings and 
a gentle Christian woman. Our people knew her, 
and pay the tribute of their sorrow in her death." 

Mrs, Fleming, Vice-President of the Na- 
tional Society and President of the Freder- 
icksburg Mary Washington Association thus 
wrote to the Secretary: 

" That she in her old age should undertake and 
live to see the successful completion of such a work 
as hers is very remarkable. She has now passed 
to her reward, but her memory will live as one who 
'did what she could' through all of a long and 
eventful life." 

Tributes from Daughters and Chapters all 
over the country were received, among them 
the following from Mrs. Fairman, whose work 
as Chairman of the Mary Washington Asso- 
ciation in the New York City Chapter is so 
well known : 

"The Mary Washington Monument is also a 



2l8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

monument to your mother who concentrated all 
her efforts to accomplish a great result and in which 
she was most successful. It is given to but few 
women the opportunity to see such a beautiful com- 
pletion of her labors. I rejoice that she did see it. 
Of her it may well be said : ' She being dead yet 
speaketh.' " 

The American Monthly Magazine pre- 
sented an eloquent and touching memorial 
from the pen of Miss Mary Desha. After 
telling of Mrs. Hetzel's early association and 
services to the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, she said: 

" It is because women such as she, broad-minded, 
self-sacrificing and patriotic were among the early 
officers of the Society that its foundations were laid 
broad and deep, and an influence has gone out 
from it that has kindled the patriotic fires of the 
land. * * * 

" In 1889, when she was over 70, she inaugurated 
the movement to restore the monument and pre- 
serve from desecration the tomb of the mother of 
Washington. She wrote the first letter, gave the 
first dollar and lived to see the work completed. 
The beautiful shaft that marks the spot is not only 
a monument to Washington's mother, but is a 
memorial to the four devoted women, Daughters of 
the American Revolution, all over seventy years of 



IN MEMORIAM. 219 

age, who organized and carried to completion this 
noble work, neglected alike by State and Nation. 

"As I stood beside her coffin and looked upon 
her peaceful face beautiful even in old age, and after 
years of sicknecs and suffering, I could not grieve 
that her work was done, but rather rejoiced that 
after a life of patriotic, zealous, untiring work, faith- 
ful loving service in every relation of life, she had 
been permitted to hear the words ' well done good 
and faithful servant,' and entered into her rest. 

" Mary Desha, 
" Founder and Honorary Vice-President General." 

Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, another of the 
" four devoted women " so tenderly men- 
tioned by Miss Desha was laid to rest six 
weeks after Mrs. Hetzel. Her brilliant past 
has been already told in these pages ; her in- 
tellectual, social and moral prominence as 
well as her unfailing wit and good judgment 
inherited from her renowned great-grand- 
father, Benjamin Franklin. She and Mrs. 
Hetzel had been friends since they first met 
in Washington as the wives of brother offi- 
cers. Members of the same church, friends 
in sickness and sorrow, associated in the same 
charities, it is sweet to think that in death 
they were not divided. 



2 20 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch was called 
home in March, 1900, and on Thanksgiving 
Day of the same year, Miss Eugenia Wash- 
ington, her cousin and housemate also left us. 
These two Hereditary Life Members joined 
the pilgrimage to Fredericksburg in May, 
1 899. It was their last visit to the home and 
tomb of their threat ancestress and it is a 
great boon to remember how happy that visit 
was. 




MRS. W. \V. WILCOX. 
(nee Elizabeth Shepard Crittenden.) 

Vice-President of Connecticut. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



AFTERMATH. 



At the annual meeting on February 2 2d, 
1 90 1, the following report was presented and 
read by Mrs. Wilcox, It was received with 
much interest and tells the story of the Con- 
necticut room in such a pleasant way that I 
shall give my readers the benefit of it : 

''One morning in February, 1897, a party of 
Connecticut friends, including myself, went from 
Washington to Fredericksburg to visit the home 
and burial place of Mary Washington. At the 
Lodge we were welcomed by the very efficient 
custodian, Mrs. John T. Goolrick, the wife of a 
prominent lawyer of Fredericksburg, and Regent of 
the D. A. R. Chapter of that city. 

"The room in which we were invited to register 
our names was cheerless and bare, with the excep- 
tion of one piece of furniture, a table; and we all 
know that one table cannot furnish a room very 
satisfactorily. 

" It was on this occasion that the idea originated 
of asking the women of Connecticut to furnish the 
room. We lost no time in securing the necessary 
(221) 



22 2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

authority. On our return a committee was formed 
and the work was at once begun. 

" Five years have passed, and to-day the dear 
little room looks cheerful and bright with its coat 
of yellow paint, its colonial cornice, its rows of old 
blue plates and tea-pots on brackets over the 
windows and doors, its lovely rug and curtains. 
Those of you who have not seen the room will be 
interested to know that we have an antique writing- 
desk, one colonial arm-chair, two mirrors, window 
shades, curtains, two handsome colonial chairs, a 
Chippendale table, two pairs of candlesticks, and- 
irons, shovel and tongs, seven blue plates, three 
sugar bowls, four tea-pots, a sofa and a water color 
of Washington at Mount Vernon. 

" Connecticut has made sixty-four Life Members 
of the Association, and these at thirty-five dollars 
each, have netted the Society twenty-two hundred 
dollars. 

" Wadsworth Chapter of Middletown, Connecti- 
cut, contributed one hundred and fifty dollars to- 
wards the erection of the Mary Washington Monu- 
ment. 

" The sale of photographs of the monument and 
lodge, also of the little book, ' The Story of Mary 
Washington,' by Marion Harland, and a Mary 
Washington tea have netted the Society quite a 
sum. This with contributions from friends has 
amounted to three hundred dollars. The expenses 



AFTERMATH. 223 

thus far for furnishing the room have been two 
hundred and ninety-four dollars. 

" We hope in time to adorn the walls with colon- 
ial pictures, and we are now anticipating with much 
pleasure a beautiful gift of the Connecticut Coat of 
Arms from the Ruth Wyllis Chapter of Hartford. 

" Elizabeth S. Wilcox, 
" Vice-President of Connecticut for the N. M. W. 

M. A." 

In May, 1900, the Harrisburg Chapter pre- 
sented a medal to Mrs. Annie Buehler Lam- 
berton, for four years their most gracious, 
kind and hospitable Regent. A year later 
the Colonial Dames of New Hampshire made 
an Hereditary Life Member of Mrs. Martha 
Cilley Bouton Clarke, well known and loved 
by the early members of the Mary Washing- 
ton Association. 

On October 23, 1901, the Carolina Scott 
Harrison, of Indianapolis, presented the 
golden star to Mrs, Cornelia Cole Fairbank, 
President-General of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, The following inter- 
esting account of the presentation was sent 
by the Chapter Historian : 

"On the afternoon of October 23d, 1901, the 



2 24 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution of Indianapolis, gave a large 
reception in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, 
President General of the National Society of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution and one of 
the early members of the Caroline Scott Harrison 
Chapter. More than two hundred guests re- 
sponded, each Chapter in the State sending several 
representatives. Mrs. John N. Carey, Regent of 
the Chapter, received the guests and presented them 
to Mrs. Fairbanks and to Mrs. James M. Fowler, 
State Regent of Indiana. 

" During the afternoon Mrs. Carey in a short ad- 
dress presented Mrs. Fairbanks with a Life Mem- 
bership in the National Mary Washington Memorial 
Association, a handsome pin, the insignia of that 
Association accompanied the gift. 

" Mrs. Fairbanks made a graceful acceptance of 
the membership and then a short address relative 
to the Continental Hall. 

" Mrs. Jefferson H. Claypool, 

" Historian, Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter." 

On June 27, 1902, a tablet was erected in 
Zion Church, Allentown, Pa., by the Liberty 
Bell Chapter, in commemoration of the con- 
cealment of the bell while the British were in 
possession of Philadelphia. The tablet was 
unveiled by Miss Minnie F. Mickley, founder 



AFTERMATH. 225 

and first Regent of the Chapter, and descend- 
ant of John Jacob Mickley, who, while the 
enemy were entering the city, brought the 
Liberty Bell, in one of his farm wagons, cov- 
ered with farm material from Philadelphia to 
Allentown, where it was hidden in the cellar 
of Zion Church. 

Immediately after this ceremony, the pres- 
ent Regent, Mrs. Saeger, on behalf of the 
Liberty Bell Chapter, presented to her prede- 
cessor. Miss Mickley, the insignia of the 
Mary Washington Association. 
15 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

FINIS. 

The resolution of Miss Desha, adopted by 
the Daughters of the American Revolution at 
their first meeting has been faithfully fulfilled. 
I can but review what has been already told 
when I recount the splendid work of the 
many Chapters and members of that organi- 
zation. The Secretary of the Mary Wash- 
ington Association was an organizer ot the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, the 
President and the two Vice-Presidents were 
Charter Members, as were also Mrs. Pryor, 
Mrs. Terhune, Mrs Clifton Breckenridge, 
Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Trumbull and Mrs. Roby. 
Miss Desha was a Founder, and Mrs. Wil- 
cox, whose wonderful work has been told in 
the preceding chapter, is a member and Re- 
gent of the Wadsworth Chapter, Middle- 
town, Conn. 

Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, in addition to having 
originated the Hereditary Life Memberships, 
(226) 




MRS. JAMES FAIRMAN. 

(nee Sarah Elizabeth Holden.) 
Chairman N. M. W. M. A., New York CitylCliapter. 



FINIS. 227 

enlisted herself 63 Hereditary Life Members 
from Daughters and Dames all over the 
land, I will also add in her own words : 

" Desiring that every member of the New York 
City Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution should have the privilege of contributing 
to our sacred work, and having full faith in the in- 
telligence, patience, patriotism and fidelity of Mrs. 
Sarah E. Fairman, I appointed her as a sub-com- 
mittee to present our cause at every meeting of the 
Chapter. She has more than justified my trust in 
her. At her last report to me she announces that 
she has collected in all one thousand three hundred 
and seventy-one dollars, and transmitted the same 
to the Board at Washington." 

This, added to collections made by Mrs. 
Pryor herself, reaches at least the sum of four 
thousand dollars. 

An account has already been given of the 
presentation of medals from Chapters to their 
Regents and from many Chapters to State 
Regents. In addition to that a great deal has 
been done by Chapters. 

Early donations were sent by Mrs. Smith 
of the Philadelphia Chapter, Miss Lilian 
Evans of the Donegal and Miss Mickley of 



228 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

the Liberty Bell Chapter. Lectures were 
given for the benefit of the cause by the John 
Marshall Chapter of Louisville, Kentucky, 
and the Mary Washington Chapter of Wash- 
ington, D. C. The Army and Navy, the Old 
Colony and many others have sent donations 
and several Chapters have themselves taken 
memberships. The Gaspee of Providence, 
the Louisa St. Clair of Detroit and the Fanny 
Ledyard and Susan Carrington Clarke Chap- 
ters of Connecticut all hold memberships. 
Many of our best v^^orkers are Chapter Re- 
gents. Mrs. McCartney, of the Wyoming 
Valley Chapter, is the Pennsylvania Vice- 
President. Mrs. S. V. W^hite, of Brooklyn, 
and Mrs. Stoddard, of the Saranac Chapter, 
have enlisted many Hereditary Life Members, 
so has Miss Baird Huey, of Pennsylvania. 
In fact so much has been done by Daughters 
and Children that it seems impossible to do 
justice to it all. Three Presidents-General 
are Hereditary Life Members: Mrs. Steven- 
son, Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Fairbanks. 

I have stated the work of the Daughters 
in this way so that one may see how prodig- 
ious it has been, and I suppose this has given 



FINIS. 229 

ground for the impression that the Mary 
Washington Monument was entirely the work 
of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion. As you see, it is true that a large pro- 
portion of the work was done by the Daugh- 
ters; but it is but justice to many earnest 
workers and generous contributors to say 
that the building of the Mary Washington 
Monument and the providing for its future 
care and preservation was not solely the work 
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
Mrs. Hearst, of California, who raised the 
first thousand dollars, has never joined the 
Daughters of the American Revolution ; nor 
has Mrs. Macon of Colorado, Mrs. Dolph of 
Oregon, Mrs. Adams of Nevada, Mrs. Squire 
of Washington, Mrs. McPherson of New Jer- 
sey, Mrs. Gray of Delaware, nor Mrs. Vance 
of North Carolina. Mrs. Lewis of South 
Carolina, was not a Daughter when she gave 
that beautiful ball in Charleston, nor was 
Mrs. Story of Louisiana, when she sent ^900 
from the Carnival Ball at New Orleans, 
though she subsequendy joined, and was for 
some dme State Regent of Louisiana. 

Mrs. Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, whose 



230 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 

wonderful work for the Mary Washington 
cause must be well known, was a Daughter 
of the Cincinnati and the Regent of the 
Gansevoort Chapter, Daughters of the Revo- 
lution. The Chapter was named after her 
grandfather. She sent a donation from that 
Chapter to the Mary Washington fund. The 
Chapter subsequently left the Daughters of 
the Revolution and joined the Daughters of 
the American Revolution, but Mrs. Lansing 
did not join with them. She has never be- 
come a D. A. R. 

We have several Dauo-hters of the Revolu- 
tion in our list of Hereditary Life Members, 
among others Miss Torquina L. Voss, of 
Indianapolis, and Mrs. Charlton L. Moody, 
of Philadelphia. 

The Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, 
through their distinguished officer, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, sent a liberal 
donation ; the Massachusetts Society of 
Colonial Dames has a Life Membership, and 
the Colonial Dames of New Hampshire have 
conferred a medal on their State President. 

Not only are there many Daughters and 
Dames among the Hereditary Life Members, 



FINIS. 231 

but many who are neither Daughters or 
Dames, but still are noble patriotic women 
and the inscription on the monument tells us 
truly that it is to 

MARY THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON, 
ERECTED BY HER COUNTRYWOMEN. 




MISS SUSAN RIVlfiRE HETZEU 



The National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association^ 

CHARTERED FEBRUARY 22, 1B90, 

IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



trustees. 

The President of the United States (ex-officio). 
The Chief-Justice of the United States {ex-officio'). 
The Governor of Virginia (ex-officio). 

:©oarJ) of directors. 

President. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 

ist Vice-President. 

Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard. 

2d Vice President. 

Mrs. Vivian M. Fleming. 

Secretary. 

Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel. 

Treasurer. 

Hon. Blair Lee. 

Legal Adviser. 

Major Robert W. Hunter. 

Pa rlia m en la rian. 

Miss Mary Desha. 

Mrs. W. W. Wilcox. Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan. 

ORIGINAL INCORPORATOR. 

Miss Maud Lee Davidge. 

(233) 



234 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



ItXcespreetDents of States. 

Mrs. Henry Hall Davis, Maine. 

Mrs. Senator Blair — Mrs. Person C. Cheney 

— Mrs. Shepard, New Hampshire. 

*Mrs. Dillingham— Mrs. Horace H, Dyer, Vermont. 
Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Massachusetts, 

Mrs. B, O. Wilbur, Rhode Island. 

Mrs. Wilcox, Connecticut. 

Mrs. Abraham Lansing, New York. 

*Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Mather— Mrs. 1. 

W. SCHULTZ, 

•Mrs. J. P. LiPPiNCOTT, 

Mrs. W. H. McCartney, 

Mrs. Senator Gray — Mrs. Churchman — 
Miss Waples, 

Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, 

Mrs. V. M. Fleming, 

Mrs. J. C. Kenna— Miss Virginia Lewis 
Mitchell, 

Mrs. Senator Vance, 

Mrs. John W. Lewis, 

Mrs. M. a. Lipscomb, 

Miss Wheeler, 

Mrs. H. D. Money, 

Mrs. J. Washington Story, 

Mrs. Senator Reagan, 

Mrs. Ambler, 

Mrs. Mary B. Washington, 

Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, 

Mrs. William Lindsay, 

Mrs. D. Meade Massie, 

Mrs. George H. Shields, 

Mrs. Mason (resigned) — Mrs. Robert Stock- 
well Hatcher. 

Mrs. Lyman Trumbull — Mrs. James F. 

Hervey, Illinois 



New Jersey. 

Philadelphia. 

Pennsylvania. 

Delaware. 
Maryland. 
Virginia. 

West Virginia. 

North Carolina. 

South Carolina. 

Georgia. 

Alabama. 

Mississippi. 

Louisiana. 

Texas. 

Florida. 

Tennessee. 

Arkansas. 

Kentucky. 

Ohio. 

Missouri. 

Indiana. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS OF STATES. 



235 



Mrs. Thomas W. Palmer, 

Mrs. Clara A. Cooley, 

Mrs. John L. Mitchell — Mrs. Angus 

Cameron, 
Mrs. Kate Smeed Cross, 
Mrs. R. M. Newport, 
Miss Morton, 

Mrs. Senator Dolph, 
Mrs. Senator Squire, 

Mrs. L. Bradford Prince, 

Mrs. Senator Warren, 

Mrs. Senator Hearst — Mrs. A. L. Hubbard. 

Mrs. Senator Stewart — Mrs. Gov. Adams, 

Mrs. M. V. Macon — Mrs, F. W. Goddard, 

Miss Virginia Miller, 

Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, ") 

Miss Mary Desha, 

Mrs. Edward Rosy, | 

Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard, 



Michigan. 
Iowa. 

Wisconsin. 

Kansas. 

Minnesota. 

Nebraska. 

Dakota. 

Oregon. 

Washington. 

Montana. 

New Mexico. 

Idaho. 

Wyoming. 

California. 

Nevad*. 

Colorado. 

District of Columbia, 



At Large. 



LIST 

OF 

HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS 

OF THE 

National 
Mary Washington Memorial Association. 



* Deceased, see last page. 



*l. Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, Incorporator. 
*2. Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, Incorporator, 

17 18 H St., Washington, D. C. 
3. Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, Incorporator, 

Sligo, Montgomery Co., Md. 
*4. Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, Incorporator, Clifton, Fairfax Co.,Va. 

5. Miss Maud Lee Davidge, Incorporator, Washington, D. C. 

6. Mrs. Annette Henry Alger, Detroit, Mich. 

7. Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, Albany, N. Y. 

8. Mrs. H. F. Lovell, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

9. Mrs. Frank Hatton, Washington, D. C. 

10. Mrs. George W. Childs, " " 

11. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, New York City. 

12. Miss Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va. 

13. General Charles Anderson, Richmond, Va. 

14. Miss Annie C. Camm, " " 

15. Miss Jennie Inman (Mrs. Payne), New York City. 

(236) 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



237 



16. 


Mrs. Mary L. Hunter, 


New York City. 


17- 


Mrs. Kate Smeed Cross, 


Emporia, Kans. 


18. 


Mrs. Charles H. Senff, 


Long Island, N. Y 


19- 


Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


20. 


Mrs. George de B. Keim, 


« 


21. 


Mrs. \Vm. F. Havemeyer, 


New York City. 


22. 


Mrs. M. J. Welmarth, 


Chicago, Ills. 


23- 


Mrs. Potter Palmer, 


« 


24. 


Mrs. Honore, 


« (( 


25- 


Miss Katherine Colvin, 


ti (( 


^26. 


Mrs. Francis M. Stewart, 


« 


27- 


Mrs. Abraham Lansing, 


Albany, N. Y. 


28. 


Mrs. Charles Avery Dorenms, 


New York City. 


29. 


Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, 


Baltimore, Md. 


30- 


Mrs. M. V. Terhune, 


Pompton, N. J. 


31- 


Mrs. Jeanelte M. Thurber, 


New York City. 


32. 


Mrs. Spencer Trask, 


« 


33- 


Mrs. Cleraence B. Fish, 


.< 


34- 


Mrs. Daniel Manning, 


Albany, N. Y. 


35- 


Mrs. G. A. Van Allen, 


.< 


36. 


Mrs. Robert L. Fryer, 


Buffalo, N. Y. 


" 


Mr. Dudley Olcott, 


Albany, N. Y. 


37- 


Mrs. Ida Remington Squire, 


Seattle, Wash. 


38- 


Mrs. Louise Ackerson, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


39- 


Mrs. Anna Geer Belden, 


Syracuse, N. Y. 


40. 


Miss Margaret Caroline Sands, 


W^ashington, D. C. 


*4i. 


Mrs. Alice C. Bakewell, 


New York. 


42. 


Mrs. Fairleigh, 


St. Joseph, Mo. 


43- 


Miss Mary E. Cook, 


Columbus, G.i. 


44- 


Mrs. L. Hedges, 


Denver, Col. 


45- 


Mrs. M. B. V. Stacey, 


Seattle. 


46. 


Miss Mildred Hall, 


Denver, Col. 


47- 


Mrs. M. D. Thatcher, 


Pueblo, Col. 


48. 


Mrs. Emma N. Arbuckle, 


Denver, Co'. 


49- 


Mrs. Mary N. Miller, 


SeaUle. 


5°- 


Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, 


<( 



238 


1 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 


51- 


Mrs. Clara Clayton Crawford, 


Seattle, 


52. 


Mrs. R, J. McKnight Moses, 


Washington, D. C, 


53- 


Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel, 


New York. 


54. 


Mrs. Margaretta W. Mohr, 


Washington, D. C. 


55- 


Mrs. Mary Muhlenberg Emery, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


*56. 


Mrs. Mary Parker Corning, 


Albany, N. Y. 


57- 


Mrs. Sarah Manning Sage, 


Menands, Albany, N.Y, 


58- 


Mrs. Dawn L. Hitchcock, 


New York. 


59- 


Mrs. Ferdinand Earle, 


" 


*6o. 


Mrs. Deborah B. Coleman, 


Philadelphia. 


6i. 


Mrs. Mary F. Myer, 


Boston, Mass. 


62a 


!.Mrs. Belinda Olney Wilbour, 


Bristol, R. L 


623.Mrs. Martha Mitchell, 


Florida. 


63- 


Mrs. Fannie A. Crosby, 


" 


64. 


Miss Marion Biddle, 


Pennsylvania. 


65- 


Miss Elizabeth N. Brown, 


" 


66. 


Mrs. Angelina B. Collins, 


Seattle, Wash. 


67. 


Mrs. Ellen Wain Harrison, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


68. 


Mrs. George F. Lord, 


New York. 


69. 


Mrs. Henry K. Sheldon, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


70. 


The Duchess de Veragua, 


Spain. 


*7i. 


Mrs. Fanny Thurston Ballard, 


Louisville, Ky. 


72. 


Mrs. William Lindsay, 


Frankfort, Ky. 


73- 


Miss Mary G. Leland, 


Fall River, Mass. 


74- 


Miss Fanny Brown, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


75- 


Miss Mary Desha, 


Washington, D. C. 


76. 


Infanta Eutalia. 


Spain. 


*77- 


Mrs. John Townshend, 


New York. 


78. 


Mrs. Louisa J. Black, 


" 


79- 


Mrs. Mary Donohan, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


80. 


Mrs. Eleanor Martin, 


<( « 


*8i. 


Miss Harriet A. Weed, 


New York City. 


*82. 


Mrs. Harriet Cramer Porter, 


Waterford, N. Y. 


83- 


Mrs. Jerusha Appleton, 


Albany, N. Y. 


84. 


Mrs. Sally Patterson Sharpe, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa. 


85- 


Mrs. Annie E. Hobbes Blanchard, 


Santa Paula, CaL 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



239 



86. 


Mrs. Ethel W. Sperry Crocker, 


California. 


87. 


Miss Estelle L. Willoughby, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


88. 


Mrs. Annie M. Crawford, 


Buffalo, N. Y. 


89. 


Mrs. Alice G. Cole, 


Fredericksburg, Va. 


90. 


Mr. Edward Avery Shedd, 


Chicago, Ills. 


91- 


Mrs. Edward Roby, 


Roby, Ills. 


92. 


Mr. John S. Field, 


Chicago, Ills. 


93- 


Mrs. Mary I. Trumbull, 


Saybrook, Conn. 


94- 


Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wilcox, 


Middletown, Conn. 


95- 


Mrs. Colin Armstrong, 


Illinois. 


96. 


Mrs. William A. Talcott, 


Rockford, Ills. 


97- 


Mrs. M. E. Potter, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


98. 


Mrs. Lucia B. Kellogg, 


Waterbury, Conn, 


99. 


Mrs. M. N. Putnam, 


Elizabeth, N. J. 


100. 


Mrs. Frances N. Woodward, 


(1 « 


lOI. 


Mrs. Virginia Knox. Maddox, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


102. 


Mrs. Alice H. Wallace, 


Albany, N. Y. 


103. 


Mary Washington Association, 


Fredericksburg, Va. 


104. 


Mrs. T. W. Palmer, 


Michigan. 


105. 


Mrs. Edward I. Smith, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


106. 


Miss Annie Law Hubbell, 


» 


107. 


Mrs. Annie D. B. Reynolds, 


Pennsylvania. 


108. 


Mrs. Seth Low, 


New York City. 


109. 


Miss Pauline P. Whitney (Mrs.Pag< 


-t), " 


no. 


Mrs. Mary P. S. Campbell, 


Elizabeth, N. J. 


HI. 


Mrs. Catherine R. Kernochan, 


New York City. 


112. 


Mrs. Mary W. Bowler, 


Virginia. 


"3- 


Mrs. Sara S. Whiting, 


New York. 


114. 


Mrs. Martha W. Wysong, 


New York. 


115- 


Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith, 


Charlottesville, Va. 


116. 


Mrs. Henrietta B. HufF, 


Greensburg, Pa. 


117. 


Mrs. Frances Candy B. Griscom, 


Haverford, Pa. 


118. 


Mrs. D. Meade Massie, 


Chillicothe, 0. 


119. 


Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle, 


Cincinnati, O. 


120. 


Mrs. Eva S. Cochran. 


New York City, 


121. 


Mrs, Florence St. J. Wardwell, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 



240 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



122. Mrs. Emma Thompson Smith, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

123. Mrs. Fanny Morris Ward, New York City. 
*I24. Miss Alice Thompson, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

125. Mrs. Wilhelmina Blatchford, New York City. 

*I26. Mrs. Mary Ford Bush, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

127. Mrs. Henrietta Crosby Thompson, Troy, N. Y. 

128. Mrs. Mary I. Burden, New York City. 

129. Mrs. Abby Townsend Lansing, Albany, N. Y. 
l30ff.Mrs. Emily Norwood Trevor, New York City. 
i30iJ.Mrs. Fanny Brooke Reid, Baltimore, Md. 

131. Mrs. Catherine Fox Lansing, Little Falls, N. Y. 

132. Mrs. Hannah Biddle Williams, Philadelphia, Pa. 
*I33. Mrs. J. Burrows Greene, New York City. 
*I34. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Marquand, New York. 

135. Mrs. Caroline de F. Orr, Troy, N. Y. 

136. Mrs. Jennie C. Fassett, Elmira, N. Y. 

137. Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, New York City. 

138. Mrs. Mary B. Lewis, Minneapolis, Minn. 

139. Mrs. Janet Suffern Lansing, New York. 

140. Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield. Mentor, O. 

141. Mrs. Eliza E. Newport, St. Paul, Minn. 
i42«.Mrs. Gertrude Darragh Linton, Minneapolis, Minn. 
i42<i.Mrs. M. Bell Moncure Hall, Baltimore, Md. 
143^. Mrs. Laura E. Hancock Merriam, Minnesota. 
i43<5.Mrs. M. C. Head, Tennessee. 

144. Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood, New York City. 

145. Mrs. S. M. S. Stiles, Watertown, N. Y. 

146. Mrs. Virginia G. Empie, Wilmington, N. C. 

147. Mrs. Fannie E. Poisson. London, England. 

148. Mrs. Katherine C. Breckenridge, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

149. Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Wakefield, Mass. 

150. Mrs. Maria W. W, Proctor, Utica, N. Y. 

151. Miss Mary Perkins Quincy, New Haven, Conn. 

152. Mrs. Margaret J. Hunsicker, Norristown, Pa.- 

153. Mrs. Jean Eno Campbell, Hoboken, N. J. 

154. Mrs. Mary Derr, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



241 



ass- 


Mrs. Frances E. Loomis, 


Pennsylvania. 


ise. 


Mrs. M. Fay Peirce, 


New York City. 


157- 


Mrs. E. M, E. Darlington, 


Pittsburg, Pa. 


158. 


Mrs. Ella Guthrie Painter. 


Allegheny, Pa. 


159. 


Mrs. Julia K. Hogg, 


Allegheny, Pa. 


160. 


Mrs. Rachel H. Mellon, 


Pittsburg, Pa. 


161. 


Mrs. Felicia R. Johnson, 


Allegheny, Pa. 


162. 


Mrs. Elizabeth P. Kennedy, 


Pittsburg, Pa. 


163. 


Mrs. Mary F. Robbins, 


Allegheny, Pa. 


164. 


Mrs. Harriet F. Greve, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


165. 


Mrs. Charlotte L. Bolton, 


New York City. 


166. 


Mrs. Marie Dennis Mercur. 


Wallingford, Pa. 


167. 


Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington 




Howard, 


Alexandria, Va. 


168. 


Mrs. Addie Wallerstein, 


New York City. 


169. 


Mrs. Caroline M. B. Hulbert, 


Clifton, 0. 


170. 


Mrs. Malilda H. Perin, 


Clifton, 0. 


171. 


Miss Annie Laws, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


172. 


Mrs. Harriet C. Robbins, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


173- 


Mrs. Adeline C. French, 


Glendale, 0. 


174. 


Dr. Fannie W. Oakly, 


New York City. 


175- 


Mrs. Isabella I. Thomas, 


Cincinnati, O. 


176. 


Mrs. Alice C. Brewster, 


Rochester, N. Y. 


177. 


Mrs. E. W. Fleming, 


Fredericksburg, Va. 


178. 


Miss Anne Randolph Ball 






(Mrs. Baughman), 


Davenport, la. 


^179. 


Mrs. Margaret Herbert Mather, 


Bound Brook, N. J. 


180, 


Miss Sarah Martine Rittenhouse, 


Germantown, Pa. 


181. 


Mrs. Katherine Searle McCartney, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa. 


182. 


Mrs. P. C. Cheney, 


Manchester, N. H. 


183. 


Mrs. Emma Westcott Bullock, 


Bristol, R. I. 


184. 


Miss Eliza Selden Washington 






(Mrs. Hunter), 


Alexandria, Va. 


185. 


Miss Mary Torrence Harrison, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


186. 


Mrs. Ella K. Perin, 


Baltimore, Md. 


187. 


Mrs. Mary H. Hart, 


Pennsylvania. 



16 



242 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



1 88. Mrs. Alice Shepley Nichols, Minneapolis, Minn. 

189. Mrs. Donaldson, St. Paul, Minn. 

190. Mrs. Mai Philler Lee, Haverford, Pa. 

191. Mrs. Louise Levering Weber, Philadelphia, Pa. 

192. Mrs. Lena Burton Clarke, Minnesota. 

193. Miss Julia Scott Stevenson 

(Mrs. Hardin), Illinois. 

194. Mrs. Sarah D. Hewitt, New York City. 

195. Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, Bloomington, Ills. 

196. Mrs. Olivia Gardner Moses, Trenton, N. J. 

197. Mrs. Anne Van Rensselaer Wells, New York. 

198. Mrs. Helen Biddle Griscom Bettle, Haverford, Pa. 

199. Mrs. Hannah Nicholson Ellison, Pennsylvania. 

200. Gaspee Chapter, Providence, R. I. 

201. Mrs. Sarah L. Horton, New York. 

202. Mrs. Grace Lea Hunt, Wilkes Barre, Pa. 

203. Miss Emma C. King, Xenia, O. 

204. Mrs. Joanna Wharton Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa. 

205. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, Washington, D. C. 

206. Mrs. Sarah Boice Runyon, Plainfield, N. J. 

207. Mrs. Julia Williams Biddle, Pennsylvania. 

208. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Colt, Hartford, Conn. 
*209. Mrs. J. I. Washburn, Connecticut. 

210. Mrs. Jeanie Washington Campbell 

Story, New Orleans, La. 

211. Mrs. Caroline Crafts Little, Rochester, N. Y. 

212. Mrs. Mary Everest Rockwell, Meriden, Conn. 

213. Mrs. Harriet Dawson Glover, Fairfield, Conn. 

214. Mrs. James Hicks, Piqua, O. 

215. Mrs. Sarah E. Fairman, New York City. 

216. Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. 

217. Mrs. Frank Houston Wyeth, Philadelphia, Pa. 

218. Miss Harriet Baird-Huey, " •' 

219. Mrs. Herman F. Straw, Manchester, N. H. 

220. Miss Helen Murray Reynolds, Wilkes Barre, Pa. 

221. Mrs. Mary T. Hill, St. Paul, Minn. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



243 



222. 


Mrs. 


Nora Blood Carpenter, 


Manchester, N. H, 


223. 


Mrs. 


Donald McLean, 


New York City. 


224. 


Mrs. 


Scott Jordan, 


Chicago, 111. 


225. 


Mrs. 


Robert Stockwell Hatcher, 


Lafayette, Ind. 


226. 


Miss 


Marguerite Doane, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


227. 


Mrs. 


Mary J. Monfort, 


St. Paul, Minn. 


228. 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth Cass Ledyard God- 




dard, 


Colorado Springs, Col, 


229. 


Mrs. 


Anna Maria Lathrop Hewes, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


230. 


Miss 


Mary Harvey, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa. 


231. 


Mrs. 


M. B. McK. Bailey, 


New York City. 


232. 


Mrs. 


Abby Day Slocomb, 


Groton, Conn. 


233- 


Mrs. 


H. Bowron, 


Sing Sing, N. Y. 


234- 


Mrs. 


Rosalynd Wood Clingan, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


235- 


Mrs. 


Margaret L. Postley, 


New York. 


236. 


Mrs. 


Mary D. Chahoon, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


237- 


Mrs. 


Lillie Van Loun Lindabury, 


Bernardsville, N. J. 


238. 


Mrs. 


Marcellus Hartley, 


New York City. 


239- 


Mrs. 


J. Heron Crosman (Ellen Hall) 


, New Rochelle, N. Y. 


240. 


Mrs. 


J. Mauran Rhodes, 


Ardmore, Pa. 


241. 


Mrs. 


W. A. Bowron, 


New York City. 


242. 


Mrs. 


Gertrude Van C. Hamilton, 


« 


243- 


Mrs. 


Andrew J. Colvin, 


Albany, N. Y. 


244. 


Mrs. 


Edith L. Collins, 


Albany, N. Y, 


245. 


Mrs. 


W. M. Knight, 


Chicago, 111. 


246. 


Mrs. 


J. De W. Harvey, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa. 


247. 


Mrs. 


Louis J. Hall, 


Harrisburg, Pa. 


248. 


Mrs. 


A. W. Reed, 


Baltimore, Md. 


249. 


Mrs. 


Cornelia Gray Lunt, 


Evanston, 111. 


250. 


Mrs. 


James W. Randall, 


New York City. 


251- 


Mrs. 


Roger Wolcott, 


Boston, Mass. 


252. 


Mrs. 


Edward Storrs Atwater, 


Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 


253- 


Mrs. 


Eva C. Hersey, 


St. Paul, Minn. 


254. 


Mrs. 


Martha Bennett Phelps, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa. 


235- 


Miss 


; Helen Erben, 


Radnor, Pa. 


256. 


Mrs. 


Marcus Benjamin, 


Washington, D. C. 



244 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



257. Mrs. Anna Scott Paine Worden, 

258. Mrs. M. W. Jackson, 

259. Miss Mary Isabella Forsyth, 

260. Mrs. Abbie Cory Turner, 

261. Mrs. Matthew Henry Robertson, 

262. Mrs, Jessie Glen Shultz, 

263. Mrs. Emily A. Williams, 
*264. Mrs. E. H. Woodruff, 

265. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Coe, 

266. Mrs. S. P. Townsend, 

267. Mrs. George P. Lawton, 

268. Mrs. Mary A. H. Smith, 

269. Mrs. Alice M. Stanley, 

270. Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, 

271. Mrs. Mary B.White, 

272. Miss Elizabeth M. White, 

273. Mrs. Delia T. Audubon Tyler, 

274. Mrs. Mary Root Wilcox, 

275. Mrs. Henry T. Bulkley, 

276. Miss Frances Wakeman, 

277. Mrs. Julia Du Bois James, 

278. Mrs. Charles H. Roberts, 

279. Mrs. John L. Camp, 

280. Mrs. E. K. Hubbard, 

281. Mrs. Leland Stanford, 

282. Mrs. Mary H. Wilson, 

283. Mrs. William B. Thayer, 

284. Mrs. O. V. Coffin, 

285. Miss M. P. Keenan, 

286. Mrs. Julia S. Whittemore, 

287. Miss Sarah S. Brayton, 

288. Mrs. F. R. Skinner, 

289. Miss M. W. Denny, 

290. Mrs. Martha Cameron House, 

291. Mrs. Clara A. Cooley, 

292. Mrs. H. J. Bailey, 



Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
Bellefonte, Pa. 
Kingston, N. Y. 
Cooperstown, N. Y. 
Albany, N, Y. 
Phillipsburg, N. J. 
Middletown, Conn. 

Cromwell, Conn. 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
<< << i< 

Milford, Conn. 

New Britain, Conn. 

New Haven, Conn. 
"1 Little Boar's Head, 
/ Northampton, N. H. 

New Haven, Conn. 

Middletown, Conn. 

Southport, Conn. 
« (< 

Seymour, Conn. 
West Chester, Pa. 
Hartford, Conn, 
Middletown, Conn. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Middletown, Conn. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Middletown, Conn. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Naugatuck, Conn. 
Fall River, Mass. 
Hartford, Conn. 
Allegheny, Pa. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Dubuque, la. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



245 



293- 
294. 
295. 
296. 
297. 
298, 
299. 
300. 
301. 
302. 

303- 

304- 

*305- 

306. 

307- 
308. 

309- 
310. 

3"- 
312. 

313- 
314- 

315- 
316. 

317- 
318. 

319. 
320. 
321. 
322. 
323- 
324. 
325- 
326. 

327- 
328. 



Mrs. Caroline E. H. Davis, 

Miss Irene Stout, 

Mrs. Ellen M. Wilcox, 

Mrs. Charles A. Carroll, 

Mrs. H, S. Ruggles, 

Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard, 

Mrs. W. A. Conover, 

Mrs. Sarah Denison Reilay, 

Miss Mary Cecelia Ryan, 

Mrs. Grace A. Mervvin Provoost, 



Meriden, Conn. 
Dayton, O. 
Meriden, Conn. 
New Brighton,Staten I. 
Wakefield, Mass. 
Plattsburg, N. Y. 
New York City. 
Pennsylvania. 
Elizabeth, N. J. 
Dubuque, la. 



Mrs. Annie Dryden Parker P. Lyon, Meriden, Conn. 



Mrs. Eugene C. Eaton, 

Mrs. George Baty Blake, 

Mrs, Franklin Farrell, 

Mrs. Marshall Calkins, 

Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge, 

Mrs. Charles F. Brooker, 

Mrs. Maria W. Pinney, 

Mrs, Mary Josephine Clark, 

Mrs. Eliot C. Clarke, 

Mrs. E. R. Sprague, 

Mrs. E. J. Cartwright, 

Mrs. Florence Hildredth Nesmith, 

Mrs. George W. Grouard, 

Mrs. Oliver P. Dickinson, 

Mrs. Leonora P. Nesmith, 

Mrs. Jane Ten Eyck Sanders, 

Susan Carrington Clark Chapter, 

Mrs. Washington Morton, 

Fannie Ledyard Chapter, 

Mrs. Thomas A. Reilly, 

Mrs. Lydia W. Noyes, 

Mrs, Harriet P. Bradley, 

Miss Mary F. de Velasco, 

Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. 

Mrs, E. P. Sohier, Boston, Mass, 



Maiden, Mass, 
Boston, Mass. 
Ansonia, Conn, 
Springfield, Mass. 
New Haven, Conn. 
Ansonia, Conn. 
Derby, Conn. 
New Haven, Conn. 
Boston, Mass. 
« <{ 

Brookline, Mass. 
Lowell, Mass. 
Reading, Mass. 
Chicago, 111. 
New York, 
Albany, N, Y. 
Meriden, Conn. 
New Brighton, Staten I. 
Mystic, Conn. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Mystic, Conn. 
Meriden, Conn. 
New York City. 



246 


BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 


328. 


Mrs. E. P. Lohier, 


Boston, Mass. 


329- 


Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan, 


Washington, D. C. 


330- 


Mr. M. H. Dodge, 


New York City. 


331- 


Mrs. E. H. Harrison, 


Lewisburg, Pa. 


332- 


Mrs. Mary E. Crane, 


Dalton, Mass. 


333- 


Mrs. Nelson Morris, 


Chicago, 111. 


334- 


Mrs. A. K. Rothschild, 


<f « 


335- 


Mrs. I. Bartholomew, 


Ansonia, Conn. 


336- 


Mrs. S. V. White, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


337- 


Mrs. G. B. Andrews, 


New York City. 


338. 


Mrs. J. H. Ogelsby, 


New Orleans, La. 


'339- 


Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, 


Washington, D. C. 


34°- 


Mrs. Elizabeth S. Reeder, 


Bellefonte, Penn. 


341. 


Mrs. Mary S. Cochrane, 


Boston, Mass. 


342. 


Mrs. Caroline F. Warren, 


Boston, Mass. 


343. 


Mrs. Anna Hill Thomas, 


New York City. 


344- 


Mrs. James W. Bartlett, 


Colorado Springs, Col. 


345- 


Miss Phebe Northrup Stoddard, 


Poultney, Vt. 


346. 


Mrs. Joseph E. McWilliams, 


St. Paul, Minn. 


347- 


Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, 


Nashville, Tenn. 


348. 


Mrs. Frederick C. Curtis, 


Albany, N. Y. 


349- 


Mrs. Laura Barnard Thompson, 


Milford, Conn. 


350. 


Mrs. Mary B. Washington, 


Cedar Hill, Tenn. 


351- 


Mrs. Cephas B. Rogers, 


Meriden, Conn. 


352. 


Mrs. Ida Pitt Ritter, 


New York City. 


353- 


Mrs. Lizzie J, Birdseye, 


Bridgeport, Conn. 


354- 


Mrs. Esther B. Noble, 


Norwalk, Conn. 


355- 


Miss Annie Burr Jennings, 


New York City. 


356. 


Mrs. Charlotte 0. Van Cleve, 


Minneapolis. 


357- 


Mrs. S. F. Farnam, 


New Haven, Conn. 


3S8. 


Mrs. Lora Haines Cook, 


Cooksburg, Pa. 


359. 


Mrs. Julia Tomlinson Bishop, 


Bridgeport, Conn. 


360. 


Mrs. Mary E. Griffin Merrill, 


Albany, N. Y. 


361. 


Mrs. S. Isabelle Hubbard, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


362. 


Mrs. Helen Parmele Handy New- 






berry, 


Detroit, Mich. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



247 



363. 


Mrs. Henry Payne, 


Milwaukee, Wis. 


364. 


Mrs. Elizabeth Hazard McCalla, 


U. S. N. 


365. 


Mrs. Emma Welch Walcott, 


New York Mills. 


^366. 


Miss Eugenia Washington, 


Washington, D. C. 


367- 


Mrs. A. R. Jones (A. Morton Jones) 


, Brookline, Mass. 


368. 


Mrs. Anna E. Lupton, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


369- 


Mrs. Theodora H. Wallace, 


U. S. N. 


370- 


Mrs. Mary B. F. Leiper, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


371- 


Miss Floretta Vining, 


Hull, Mass. 


372. 


Mrs. Jane Esther Stone, 


Washington, D. C. 


373- 


Mrs. David L. Stetson, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


374. 


Mrs. Jessie Van Zile Belden, 


Syracuse, N. Y. 


375- 


Miss Jeannette Emma Smith, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


376. 


Mrs. Lucy W. Whitney, 


New York City. 


377- 


Mrs. Hattie Nourse Brockett, 


Alexandria, Va. 


378. 


Mrs. Emily Warren Roebling, 


Trenton, N. J. 


379. 


Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel, 


New York City. 


380. 


Mrs. Elizabeth D. Vail, 


Denver, Colorado. 


381- 


Mrs. Sarah Hilliard Hatch, 


Washington, D. C. 


382. 


Mrs. Phebe C. Wilson, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


383. 


Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley, 


Executive Mansion, 


384. 


Mrs. Harriett N. Lothrop, 


Concord, Mass. 


385- 


Miss Dorothy White, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


386. 


John Christy Giles, Jr., 


« « 


387- 


Mrs. Minnie M. Kendrick, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


388. 


Mrs. Emily N. McGuire, 


Washington, D. C. 


389- 


Mrs. Althea T. Bedle, 


Jersey City, N. J. 


390. 


Mrs. George F. Fuller, 


Springfield, Mass. 


391. 


Mrs. Helen P. Benedict, 


New Haven, Conn. 


392. 


Mrs. Teresa H. English, 


,< 


393- 


Mrs. Florence C. Moseley, 


« 


394- 


Mrs. Elizabeth D. Thaw, 


Allegheny, Pa. 


395- 


Mrs. Frances Boatt Moss, 


Sandusky, Ohio. 


396. 


Mrs. Ella Myers Peets, 


New Haven, Conn. 


397- 


Mrs. W. J. Frisbie, 


Camden, N. J. 


398. 


Louisa St. Clair Chapter, 


Detroit, Michigan. 



248 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



399. Mrs. Rumina Ayres McClure, 

400. Miss Jennie M. Clarke, 

401. Mrs. Emeline Joslin Colony, 

402. Mrs. Mary F. Richmond, 

403. Mrs. Florence D. Talbot. 

404. Mrs. Emily M. Currier, 

405. Miss Martha H. Rigg, 

406. Mrs. Catherine Hippie Cook, 

407. Mrs. Elizabeth R. H. Moulton, 

408. Miss Anne Hampton Barnes, 

409. Mrs. Lucy Tarr Fleming, 

410. Mrs. Helen M. Norton, 

411. Mrs. Levietta Bartlett Conner, 

412. Mrs. Emma Kidwell McCahill, 

413. Mrs. Sophie W. Sage, 

414. Mrs. Julia Arnold Bradley, 

415. Mrs. Emma Stinson Green, 

416. Mrs. Rachel McM, Miller, 

417. Mrs. Jerusha T. Rockwell, 

418. Miss Lilla T. Pechin, 

419. Mrs, Mary Powers Harris, 

420. Mrs, Grace G. F. Reynolds, 

421. Mrs. Mary Shelley Pechin, 

422. Mrs. Elizabeth C. B. Nourse, 

423. Mrs. Charlotte M. H. Maurice, 

424. Mrs. Abigail J. H. Dyer, 

425. Mrs. Margaret Pratt Myers, 

426. Mrs, Rosetta R. Hostetter, 

427. Miss Caroline Pearson, 

428. Mrs, Nannie Gilmore Herr, 

429. Miss Sophie Waples, 

430. Miss Emily Ritchie Perkins, 

431. Mrs. Florence F, McKinney, 



Little Rock, Ark. 
Providence, R. L 
Keene, N. H, 
North Adams, Mass, 
Lynn, Mass. 
Longwood, Mass. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Rosemont, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chestnut Hill, Phila., 

Pa. 
Little Rock, Ark, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, 
Washington, D, C, 
U. S. A, 

Southington, Conn, 
Easton, Pa, 
Turtle Creek, Pa. 
Southport, Conn, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
li « 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 
Torega, Botetourt Co., 

Va. 
Absecon, N. J, 
Athens, Pa, 
Rutland, Vt. 
Plattsburg, N. Y. 
Allegheny, Pa, 
Harrisburg, Pa, 
(( << 

Wilmington, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chestnut Hill, Phila., 
Pa. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



249 



432. Mrs. Effie Fleming Disston, 

433. Mrs. Mary Kate Hancock, 

434. Mrs. Ida Tucker Morris, 

435. Mrs. Fannie J. Helmuth, 

436. Miss Mary Benson, 

437. Mrs. Leah Dale Fassett, 

438. Mrs. Emily H. Roots, 

439. Miss Bessie J. Kibbey, 

440. Mrs. Mary Gertrude Kibbey, 

441. Mrs. Sara L. Lee, 

442. Mrs. Anna Pretty man Rowland, 

443. Mrs. Delia Boardman Conover, 

444. Mrs. Ellen M. Beale, 

445. Miss E. Crowell, 

446. Mrs. Isabella L. Tliompson, 

447. Miss Sara W. Daggett, 

448. Mrs. Eleanor Howe Nimick, 

449. Mrs. Anna S. W. Smith, 

450. Mrs. Elizabeth McC. Miller, 

451. Mrs. Mary Fairfax Woodward, 

452. Mrs. Antoinette F. Wheeler, 

453. Mrs. Annie B. Shepard, 

454. Mrs. Mary Hubbard Bunce, 

455. Mrs. Margaret R. Pendleton, 

456. Mrs. Arabella A. Peterson, 

457. Mrs. Frederica C. T. Getchell, 

458. Miss Myra Hubbard Avery, 

459. Mrs. Emma C. Humbird, 

460. Mrs. Annie B. Lamberton, 

461. Miss Virginia Lewis Mitchell, 

462. Mrs. Mary Gertrude Edson Aldrich, 

463. Mrs. Emma Lukens Thompson, 

464. Mrs. Ellen H. M. Peck, 

465. Mrs. Mary Isabelle Hervey, 

466. Miss Eleanor Magruder, 

17 



Chestnut Hill, Phila., 

Pa. 
Franklin, Pa. 
Chicago, Ills. 
New York City. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Franklin, Pa. 
Little Rock, Ark. 
Washington, D. C. 
Marshalltown, la. 
Boston, Mass. 
Chicago, Ills. 
<( « 

Parkesburg, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Atlantic City, N. J. 
Boston, Mass. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Brooklyn, N. Y, 
U. S. N. 
U. S. N. 

Bridgeport, Conn. 
East Derry, N. H. 
Middletown, Conn. 
Laurel, Md. 
Lockport, N. Y. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
Charlestown, W. Va. 
New York City. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Chicago, 111. 
Washington, D. C. 



250 




BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 


467. 


Mrs. 


Sophie Knox Garvin, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


468. 


Mrs. 


Margaret Byers Stanford, 


Harrisburg, Pa. 


469. 


Mrs. 


Genevra W. Woodruff, 


New York City 


470. 


Mrs. 


Ella H. Graeme, 


Wilkes Barre, Pa, 


471. 


Mrs. 


Edith Conant Thornton, 


Pautucket, R. I. 


472. 


Mrs. 


Mary K. Browne, 


New York City. 


473. 


Miss 


Torquinia L. Voss, 


Indianapolis, Ind. 


474- 


Mrs. 


Mary C. Hoffman, 


New York City. 


475- 


Mrs. 


Lida McK. Howard Smith, 


Germantown, Pa. 


476. 


Mrs. 


Florence Gray Estey, 


Brattleboro, Vt. 


477- 


Mrs. 


Edna P. Davis, 


Portland, Me. 


478. 


Miss 


Sarah Doughty, 


Absecon, N. J. 


479- 


Mrs. 


Susan Babcock Munson, 


Albany, N. Y. 


48o. 


Mrs. 


Mary Clinton Baldwin, 


« « 


481. 


Mrs. 


Caroline Buchanan, 


i< (( 


482. 


Mrs. 


Henrietta A. Longley, 


Pautucket, R. I. 


483. 


Mrs. 


Emily L. A. Thomson, 


New York City. 


484. 


Mrs. 


Katherine R. Wollcot Verplanck 


, Fishkill-on-Hudson, 
N. Y. 


485. 


Mrs. 


Catherine H. T. Avery, 


Cleveland, Ohio. 


4S6. 


Mrs. 


Virginia S. Hodge, 


" 


487. 


Mrs. 


Julia T. Scott, 


Bloomington, 111. 


488. 


Mrs. 


Ellen Damon LaLanne, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


489. 


Miss Alice A. De LaMar, 


New York City. 


490. 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth Eddy Moody, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


491- 


Mrs. 


Alice Greene Crandall, 


New London, Conn. 


492. 


Mrs. 


Antha Clift Buxton, 


Middletown Springs, 

Vt. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


493- 


Mrs. 


Caroline Damon Kerr, 


494- 


Mrs, 


, Barbara Eugenie Williams, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


495- 


Mrs. 


Martha L. Chase, 


Waterbury, Conn. 


496. 


Mrs. 


Lillian Ptke Roome, 


Washington, D. C. 


497- 


Mrs, 


, Virginia Bulkley Perry, 


Southport, Conn. 


498. 


Mrs. 


, Ella E. T, Saeger, 


Allentown, Pa. 


499. 


Mrs. 


. Susus Embury Blodgett, 


New York City. 


500. 


Mrs, 


, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, 


Indianapolis, Ind. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



251 



501. 


Miss 


Adele Kneeland, 


New York City. 


502. 


Mrs. 


Mary McGill Gamble, 


Plattsburg, N. Y. 


503- 


Mrs. 


Marietta Michael Dedericke, 


Albany, N. Y. 


504- 


Mrs. 


Jane C. Bevin, 


East Hampton, Conn. 


505. 


Mrs. 


Mary Comstock Vaits, 


New London, Conn. 


506, 


Mrs. 


Rose E. Lytton, 


Chicago, 111. 


507- 


Mrs. 


Adeline T. Emerson, 


Rockford, 111. 


508. 


Miss 


Eliza Mansfield, 


Peoria, 111. 


509- 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth S. Law, 


New York City. 


510. 


Miss 


; Mary Alice Law, 


i< <( 


5"- 


Mrs. 


Martha Cilley B. Clarke, 


Manchester, N. H. 


512. 


Mrs. 


Harriet McGaw Woodbury, 


Bedford, N. H. 


513- 


Jklrs. 


Mary J. Foster, 


Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 


514- 


Miss 


Martha Edwards Beach, 


Bridgeport, Conn. 


515- 


Mrs. 


Mary Louise Woodin, 


Berwick, Pa. 


^516. 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth Foster Wood in. 


« i( 


517- 


Mrs. 


Annie Jessup Woodin, 


« i< 


518. 


Mrs. 


Theodora C. Bailey, 


Denver, Col, 


519. 


Mrs. 


Abby Jane Gray Taylor, 


Boston, Mass. 


520. 


Mrs. 


Angeline Ensign Newman, 


New York City. 


521. 


Mrs. 


Fannie A. Welcher,, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


522. 


Mrs. 


Emily Ripley McGregor, 


Newark, N. J. 


523- 


Mrs. 


Ella Petrie Lamb Jewett, 


St. Paul, Minn. 


524. 


ISIrs. 


Harriet S. Boas, 


New York City. 


525- 


Miss 


Minnie F. Mickley, 


AUentown, Pa, 


526. 


Mrs. 


Alice H. Van Anden, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


527. 


Mrs. 


Frances Hubbard Larkin, 


Buffalo, N. Y. 


528. 


Mrs. 


Emma Embury Cattus, 


New York City. 


529. 


Miss 


Emma Embury Cattus, 


» 


530- 


Mrs. 


Francis Larkin Esty, 


Buffalo, N. Y. 


531- 


Miss 


Isabella Hale Crandall, 


Yonkers, N, Y, 


532. 


Mrs. 


Mary Richardson Welsh, 


Toledo, 0. 


533- 


Mrs. 


Augusta M. Dolph, 


Portland, Ore. 


534. 


Mrs. 


Francie Grant Wager, 


Cleveland, 0. 


535- 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth Duncan Thayer, 


North Adams, Mass. 


536. 


Mrs. 


^L Jenny Piatt, 


New York. 



252 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



537. Mrs. Ellen M. Colton, 

538. Mrs. Susan Carrie Elson Clokey, 
359. Mrs. Emily Hall Hazen, 

540. Mrs. Alice Henderson Van Tassel, 

541. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gordon, 

542. Mrs. Annie F. Shardlow, 

543. Mrs. Sarah B. Camp, 

544. Mrs. Florence Skid more Brown 

Menges, 

545. Mrs. Katie P. Farnham, 

546. Mrs. Eliza Jumel Caryl, 

547. Mrs. Mary Stewart Carey, 

548. Miss Helen M. Winslow, 

549. Mrs. Mary E. F. Maynard, 

550. Mrs. Janette Adams Garner, 

551. Mrs. Mary Little Deere, 

552. Mrs. Christina VonK. Wade, 

553. Mrs. Elizabeth Cynthia Barney Buel, 

554. Mrs. Clara Curtis Qualey, 

555. Mrs. James DeSoto Giblin, 

556. Mrs. Janet Watson Seward, 

557. Mrs. Harriet W. Smith, 

558. Mrs. Elizabeth O. Galusha, 

559. Mrs. Caroline Augusta Warner, 

560. Mrs. Elizabeth Dismukes, 

561. Mrs. Hortense Hay Mclntire, 

562. Mrs. Henrietta Candee Weir Hesing, 

563. Mrs. Frances Ayres Johnson Gibbs, 

564. Mrs. Ella Holmes White, 

565. Mrs. Mathilde von T. Iredell, 

566. Mrs. Emilie D. Martin, 

567. Mrs. Augusta Danforth Geer, 

568. Mrs. Medora Sanford Todd, 

569. Miss Stella Florine Broadhead, 

570. Mrs. Harriet P. Simpson, 

571. Mrs. Edith Darlington Ammon, 



California. 
Decatur, 111. 
Pelham Manor, N. Y. 
Dubois, Pa, 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
New York City. 
Winsted, Conn. 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y 

Yonkers, N. Y. 
Yonkers, N. Y. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Roxbury, Mass. 
Marquette, Mich. 
Colorado Springs, Col, 
Moline, Ills. 
Allegheny, Pa. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Troy, N. Y. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
New York City. 
Troy, N. Y. 
Troy, N. Y. 
Columbus, Ga. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Chicago, Ills. 
Philadelphia, Pa, 
New York City. 
Allentown, Pa. 
New York City. 
Washington, D. C. 
New York City. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
Brookline, Mass. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 



HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 



253 



572. 


Mrs. 


Julia Husted Merrill, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


573- 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth Carroll Abell, 


Baltimore, Md, 


574- 


Miss 


Kate M. McKie, 


Cambridge, N, Y. 


575- 


Mrs. 


Ellen Southwick Hart, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


576. 


Mrs. 


Emily A. Peckham, 


Troy, N. Y, 


577- 


Mrs. 


Emilie D. Robb, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


578. 


Mrs. 


Caroline M. Murphy, 


Cincinnati, 0. 


579- 


Mrs. 


Caroline Berry Britton, 


New York City. 


580. 


Mrs. 


Katherine Pratt Horton, 


Buffalo, N. Y. 


581. 


Mrs. 


Mary Wood Swift, 


San Francisco, Cal. 


582. 


Mrs. 


Elizabeth W. Hoffecker, 


Wilmington, Del. 


583- 


Mrs. 


William L. Cooney, 


Brooklyn, N. Y. 


584- 


Mrs. 


Phebe Armstrong Sherwood, 


Ottawa, Ills. 


S85. 


Mrs. 


Edith Wallace Knowles, 


Wilmington, Del. 


586. 


Mrs. 


Aurora B. McClellan, 


Athens, Ala. 


5!^7. 


Miss 


Louise Holman Haynes, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


588. 


Mrs. 


Catherine A. Bruce, 


New York City. 


589. 


Mrs. 


Annie R. McW. Hain, 


.. 


590. 


Mrs. 


Henrietta Pyre Benson, 


Troy, N. Y. 


591. 


Mrs. 


Mary Hart Wright, 


(( (I 


592. 


Miss 


Mary Harris Pearson, 


Harrisburg, Pa. 


593- 


Miss Ellen Evans, 


Norristown, Pa. 


594- 


Mrs, 


Betty McG. Smoot, 


Alexandria, Va. 


595- 


Mrs. 


Frances Bernard Goolrick, 


Fredericksburg, Va. 


596. 


Miss 


Susan Carpenter Frazer, 


Lancaster, Pa. 


597- 


Mrs. 


Lizzie S. Belding, 


Rockville, Conn. 


598. 


Mrs. 


Eugenia W. Daw, 


Lansingburgh, N. Y. 


599- 


Mrs. 


Katherine Duncan Smith, 


Birmingham, Ala. 


600. 


Mrs. 


Josephine Campbell Rathbone, 


Hamilton, Ohio. 



254 



BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 



DECEASED MEMBERS AND INHERITORS. 



Deceased Members. 

1. Mrs. Amelia C. Waite. 
41. Mrs. Alice C. Bakewell. 
60. Mrs. Deborah B. Coleman. 
71. Mrs. Fanny Thurston Ballard. 
Si. Miss Harriet A. Weed. 

113. Mrs. Sara S. Whiting. 

134. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Marquand. 

264. Mrs. E. H. W'oodruff. 

400. Miss Susan Carrington Clarke. 

26. Mrs. Frances M. Stewart. 

77. Mrs. John Townshend. 

100. Mrs. Frances N. Woodward. 

209. Mrs. Jane Ives Washburn. 

305. Mrs. George Baty Blake. 

4. Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel. 

2. Mrs. Matilda W. Emory. 

339. Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch. 

56. Mrs. Mary Parker Corning. 

82. Mrs. Harriet Cramer Porter. 

124. Miss Alice Thomison. 

126. Mrs. Mary Ford Bush. 

179. Mrs.Margaret Herbert Mather. 

366. Miss Eugenia W^ashington. 

133. Mrs. J. Burrows Greene. 

247. Mrs. Eliza Warford Hall. 



Inheritors. 
Miss Mary F. Waite. 
Mrs, Ann Katherine Moorhead. 

Miss Abby Churchill Ballard. 

Mrs. Sara Whiting Rives. 
Mrs. Linda Marquand Terry. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Kellogg Chase. 
Miss Jennie Clarke. 
Mrs. Frances Welles Shepard. 
Mrs. Mary L. Townshend 

Rennard. 
Miss Mary Evertson Barrow. 
Miss Grace Ives W^ashburn. 

Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel. 
Miss Victoria de Montholon 
Emory. 



Miss Edith T. Herbert Mather. 
Miss Eugenia Washington 

Moncure. 
Mrs. Mary Greene Chapin. 
Miss Grace Hall. 




INSIGNIA. 
Reverse Side. 



DECEASED MEMBERS AND INHERITORS. 255 

Deceased. Inheritors. 

182. Mrs. Person C. Cheney. Mrs. Agnes Cheney Fish. 

345. Miss Phebe Northrup Stod- 
dard. Mrs. Frances A. H. Rice. 
83. Mrs. Jerusha Appleton. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Wynkoop. 
312. Mrs. Eliot C. Clark. 

112. Mrs. May W, Bowler. Mrs. Alice W. Bowler. 

516. Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Woodin, Miss Elizabeth Foster Wood in. 



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